Virginia’s House of Delegates approved a bill that would allow public schools in the state to post the Ten Commandments. The measure, which now goes to the Senate following last Friday’s vote in the lower chamber, would require the state Board of Education to write guidelines for displaying the Ten Commandments in classrooms.
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