This article was originally published in Oklahoma Voice.
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma lawmaker says he hopes new House leadership will support a better outcome for his resurrected bill to display the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.
Rep. Jim Olsen, R-Roland, has refiled the bill after it failed last year. House Bill 1006 would require a poster or a framed copy of the Ten Commandments to be posted in a conspicuous place in every public school classroom in Oklahoma, a state where the head of public schools also is endeavoring to put Biblical texts in classrooms .
“The Ten Commandments is one of our founding documents,” Olsen said. “It was integral and central to the life of the founders and to our people in general during the founding of the nation, and for us to give our children an honest history of how things really were, I think that needs to be included.”
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Louisiana passed a similar law requiring school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments. Enforcement of the law is blocked in five Louisiana school districts after a federal judge deemed it unconstitutional and overtly religious .