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Alabama took a big step closer toward allowing the Ten Commandments to be displayed in K-12 classrooms, as well as being taught in the curriculum, in April.
The Alabama House of Representatives moved in April to pass a bill requiring all K-12 classrooms display the Ten Commandments, a major win for religious freedoms in the state, according to the Alabama Reflector. The legislation is written specifically to ensure that local school boards are not made to pay for the poster-sized display and accompanying explainer. (TAKE A POLL: Is There a Law Separating Church and State?)
“These are principles that our children need, and even if it’s just looking at it on the wall to remind them of what they are and how they should live from day to day,” said Rep. Patrick Sellers, D-Pleasant Grove, the only Democrat to support the legislation. “That’s what’s missing in our schools. That’s what’s missing in our homes, that’s what’s missing in our families.”
“I think that the 10 commandments have their place, but I don’t know that we need to mandate that they be in our schools,” Rep. Marilyn Lands, D-Huntsville noted. “I think we teach our children well in our homes, and I think we have churches to teach them, but I’m not sure that they belong in our schools.”
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