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INDIANAPOLIS — A bill has been introduced that would require school corporations across the Hoosier state to have a poster with the text of the Ten Commandments in each school library and classroom.

The Center for Inquiry has filed a legal brief challenging a Louisiana law that requires the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom. The law, House Bill 71, has previously been ruled ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Indiana's governor and attorney general want the Ten Commandments back at the Indiana Statehouse. A motion was filed Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District ...

Gov. Mike Braun and Attorney General Todd Rokita announced they are pushing to place a monument with the Ten Commandments and the Bill of Rights at the Indiana Statehouse — a move that reignites a ...

Indiana leaders have revived a decades-old legal battle that has kept a monument featuring the Ten Commandments from Statehouse grounds. Gov. Mike Braun and Attorney General Todd Rokita announced ...

Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation directing the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. A state law directing Texas school districts to display the Ten Commandments in ...

Kentucky has reinstalled a Ten Commandments monument on the state Capitol grounds following a new law. Legislators should be required to keep personal copies of the commandments to remind them of ...

Andrea Picciotti-Bayer’s guest column claiming that mandatory Ten Commandments displays are “well within American tradition” ignores both constitutional precedent and the realities of today’s public ...

A donated Ten Commandments monument has been permanently restored to Kentucky's state Capitol grounds this week, more than four decades after it was removed. The granite monument was returned on ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Ten Commandments monument stood on the Kentucky State Capitol grounds until the 1980s, when it was moved to make way for construction. The monument was donated to the Commonwealth ...