Small Oklahoma School District removes the 10 Commandments

 

Roy Moore's monument, now gone.

    They did so in the face of a lawsuit filed by the Freedom From Religion group, which was representing a student at the school. A TV report on the story of the Muldrow, Oklahoma school is here.
       Alabama legislators have been trying to amend the state constitution to allow ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms. They introduced a bill to let people vote on...

"...a constitutional amendment which would provide that property belonging to the state may be used to display the Ten Commandments and that the right to display the Ten Commandments on property owned or administrated by a public school or public body is not restrained or abridged."

      House Bill 299 hasn't even been acted on in the House, and Monday is the last legislative  meeting day of the session, so it's probably not going anywhere.
     The Alabama constitution is even more specific than the U.S. constitution when it comes to mixing church and state. Here's what it says:

SECTION 3

Religious freedom.

That no religion shall be established by law; that no preference shall be given by law to any religious sect, society, denomination, or mode of worship; that no one shall be compelled by law to attend any place of worship; nor to pay any tithes, taxes, or other rate for building or repairing any place of worship, or for maintaining any minister or ministry; that no religious test shall be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under this state; and that the civil rights, privileges, and capacities of any citizen shall not be in any manner affected by his religious principles.


[Thanks to Rev. Jay, editor of heavenly events, for locating the Oklahoma story!]