Key Vote Puts Texas Closer to Displaying Ten Commandments in Classrooms

The Texas Legislature cleared a major vote on May 24 on a measure that would require the state’s public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments. The state’s Republican-majority House offered preliminary approval of the measure on Saturday, with a final vote to be held in the next few days. If passed, the bill will go to Gov. Greg Abbot’s desk, who has said he would sign it into law. “The focus of this bill is to look at what is historically important to our nation educationally and judicially,” said state Rep. Candy Noble, a Republican co-sponsor of the bill....