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A Lindsay Republican's bill that sought to require the Ten Commandments be posted in every public school classroom in Montana was shot down Saturday in a 24-26 Senate vote.
The Montana Senate voted down a bill Saturday to require public schools to post the Ten Commandments in every classroom, albeit with an emotional debate about the need for moral standards in the ...
A bill that would require every public school classroom in Montana to display the Ten Commandments narrowly escaped death on the Senate floor, and instead was sent back to committee for further ...
HELENA, Mont. — A controversial bill requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom in the state failed to clear its second reading on the Senate floor. Senate ...
A copy of the Indian Ten Commandments handed to the Senate Judiciary committee by Patrick Yawakie, representing the Blackfeet Nation, Rocky Boy’s Indian Community, and Fort Belknap Indian ...
The senator and lobbyist were responding to Senate Bill 114, to require public school trustees to post the Ten Commandments — on a minimum 11” by 14” poster or framed document — in each ...
The senator and lobbyist were responding to Senate Bill 114, to require public school trustees to post the Ten Commandments — ...
“So, if we put the Ten Commandments up, which are Christian commandments, then we’re actually violating the plain language of our Constitution in our First Amendment,” Montana state Sen ...
Eight Republicans joined every Democrat in the Montana Senate to defeat the measure. A new day for religious freedom’ In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Kentucky’s law requiring the ...
On Feb. 1, the judiciary committee of the Montana state Senate approved a DD bill modeled on Louisiana’s in a party-line vote. Three weeks later, eight Republican senators joined Democrats to ...