A couple of commandments are in order for watching “The Ten Commandments” this weekend on ABC. Why just a couple? Because I could not come up with 10, for I am not the Lord thy God, who gave unto ...

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Controversy over the commandments is not new. In more than a dozen early cases, courts generally upheld laws and policies mandating their recitation in schools. These enactments survived because the ...

Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama have passed laws requiring the posters in public schools. Several other states are considering similar measures. By Pooja Salhotra A growing number of Republican ...

Re “U.S. Appeals Court Upholds Texas Ten Commandments Law” (news article, April 23): What’s the difference between teaching the Bible as literature and posting the Ten Commandments in a classroom?

A Ten Commandments display returned to the historic Rutherford County Courthouse despite a 2002 federal court order to remove the Biblical laws.