A Texas bill would allow schools to set aside time for students to pray and study the Bible or other religious texts.

Objection to state school Bible-reading law in 1925, nuclear power plant opposition in 1975, Jesse Jackson's push for ...

Bills that would return prayer, the Ten Commandments, and the Bible back into Texas classrooms head to Gov. Greg Abbott's ...

State Superintendent Ryan Walters insists there will be Bibles in Oklahoma classrooms this fall, even though the Legislature ...

Those disputes culminated in a series of landmark Supreme Court cases, including a ruling in 1963 that mandatory Bible reading or prayer in public schools was unconstitutional. At the time ...

Rep. Jordan Redman, R-Coeur d'Alene, sponsored the bill, but it was largely presented to the committee by the Christian-centered Idaho Family Policy Center’s president, Blaine Conzatti.

For nearly a century, Idaho children began their school days hearing the Bible read by their teachers — a tradition many have forgotten. Our “School-Sponsored Bible Reading Act” builds on ...

The Texas House of Representatives today (Friday, May 23) passed Senate Bill 11 mandating a daily period set aside in Texas ...

A bill to allow for periods of prayer or Bible readings in public and charter schools in Texas has cleared one of its last hurdles to becoming law. The bill passed its final reading in the Texas ...

The House gave its final approval to Senate Bill 11, written by state Sen. Mayes Middleton (R-Galveston), on Friday morning.

Schempp (1963), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a Pennsylvania school district’s mandatory Bible readings were unconstitutional, even though individual students were allowed to opt out in rare cases.