The South Dakota Senate voted 18-17 on Tuesday at the Capitol to advance a bill mandating public schools to display the Ten ...

The bill would require the Ten Commandments be posted in each classroom in South Dakota's public schools. But it could face ...

First-term Republican Sen. John Carley of Piedmont brought Senate Bill 51, which is similar to legislation that’s popped up ...

"It's one of the most important historic artifacts that I've ever handled." In 1913, workers were carrying out excavations ...

First-term Republican Sen. John Carley of Piedmont, who sponsored SB 51, said he brought the bill because it brings a traditional, historical foundation document back to schools, reintroduces the ...

The American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State are also representing the ...

A committee of South Dakota lawmakers voted 4-3 to endorse a bill Thursday in Pierre that would require public school ...

A bill that would make it mandatory for the Ten Commandments to be displayed in publicly funded elementary, middle and high ...

Last fall, a federal judge called the law requiring public schools to post the Ten Commandments unconstitutional. On Thursday, an appeals court will take up the case.

A law requiring the religious text to be displayed in all public classrooms was struck down by a lower court judge in ...

A Republican Senator wants to require every classroom in South Dakota to display the Ten Commandments. Sen. John Carley’s bill passed with a 4-3 vote in a Senate ...

He pointed to the Ten Commandments written on walls of the U.S. Supreme Court building and “In God We Trust” written on money as examples of religion present in public, government-funded spaces.