Alabama leaders, however, say they are doing what the voters want and are confident the laws will be upheld by the courts. The school prayer bill is a constitutional amendment that would have to go before voters for approval, and GOP officials believe it would pass with 70 to 80 percent support.

A new bill in the Idaho Legislature would require all public schools to display the Ten Commandments. The proposal marks a effort from Christian Republican lawmakers in the state to push religion into the public sphere, testing the bounds of the Constitution and the country’s separation of church and state.

Bills introduced by Republicans in the Texas Senate would require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools and allow for schools to carve out time for students to read the Bible, in the latest effort by lawmakers in states to infuse religious doctrine in public education.

Under the bill, schools and universities would be required to conspicuously display a poster or framed copy of the Ten Commandments that is at least 16 inches wide by 20 inches tall with typeface that is legible.

Republicans in the Texas Senate introduced a bill that would require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools and have time set aside in the day for students to read the Bible. The

A new bill introduced in the state house this week could require all public schools in Georgia to display the Ten Commandments.

A state senator, Phil King, introduced a bill Monday requiring schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Another senator, Mayes Middleton, introduced a bill that would let schools create time for students to pray and read the Bible or “other religious texts.”

Debate is heating up in the Montana Legislature over a bill that would require putting the Ten Commandments in every classroom in the state.

The Historical Education Displays Act, a new Senate proposal, would give school boards the ability to put the Ten Commandments in public classrooms.