Joining a national trend among conservative states, government schools and buildings in Arkansas must display the Ten Commandments and the national motto under a new bill signed into law by Gov. Sarah Sanders Huckabee this week.
Some far-left and anti-Christian critics were upset by the bill and made a lot of noise. But state lawmakers passed the measure overwhelmingly, with 71 to 20 in the House and 27 to 4 in the Senate. The measure is popular with the public, too.
The new law, known as Senate Bill 433 (now 573), mandates a “durable poster or framed copy of a historical representation of the Ten Commandments” to be posted in government-school classrooms and other buildings across Arkansas. The display must be readable to a person with average vision.
Lawmakers explained why it was proper and important for the holy laws to be placed in schools. “You cannot separate the history of our nation and the development of moral law and the Ten Commandments, nor should we,” explained Arkansas Rep. Alyssa Brown, a Republican and sponsor of the bill.
“Every day, as members, we stand on the House floor and we take a pledge of allegiance to one nation under God. We have the ‘In God We Trust’ motto in those same classrooms,” she added. “We’re not telling every student they have to believe in this God, but we are upholding what those historical documents mean and that historical national motto.”

A spokesman for the governor echoed those remarks. “The Ten Commandments are the basis of all Western law and morality and it is entirely appropriate to display them to students, state employees, and every Arkansan who enters a government building,” said Governor Sanders’ Communications Director Sam Dubke.
Religious liberty groups applauded the effort, too. “Placing this historic document and national motto on schoolhouse walls is a great way to remind students of the foundations of American and Arkansas law,” said Matt Krause with First Liberty Institute. “We applaud Arkansas for joining a growing list of states that have taken this bold step for religious liberty.”
As The Newman Report documented last summer, a growing number of Republican-controlled states are bringing God, the Bible, and the Ten Commandments back into government schools. From Oklahoma’s mandate to have the Bible in school to Louisiana’s new law mandating the Ten Commandments, states are getting bolder. Alabama just passed a similar bill this week.
While the process began as government started taking over education in the 19th century, the official de-Christianization of government education began in the 1960s. That is when the U.S. Supreme Court unconstitutionally removed Bible reading and prayer under the guise of the First Amendment.
The First Amendment applies to Congress, though, as it states explicitly. When it was written and ratified, most states had established churches. And in any case, the prayers and Bible readings were hardly establishing a “religion” at the state level. In fact, the prayer banned by the court was developed by a rabbi, a Catholic priest, and a protestant minister.
Ironically, what the high court really sought to do was impose a false religion on America by edict, as the dissent noted. “Refusal to permit religious exercises thus is seen, not as the realization of state neutrality, but rather as the establishment of a religion of secularism,” explained Justice Potter Stewart, correctly.
Of course, the Bible was the primary educational tool in American education for centuries. In fact, the first ever law passed in North America dealing with education was the “Old Deluder Satan” Act in Massachusetts. The objective: Ensure everybody could read so they could study the Bible and avoid being deceived by the prince of demons.
Unfortunately, with the Supreme Court’s 1960s rulings, John Dewey’s “Religious Humanism” and a godless, anti-Christian worldview were established as the national religion. All children in government schools were to be taught this false religion, and taxpayers — well over 90 percent of whom identified as Christian — would pay for it.
But the tide is now turning. And awareness about the alarming government effort to de-Christianize the United States via indoctrination in schools is growing, along with organized pushback.
Even in recent memory, the Ten Commandments were acknowledged to be a universal part of American heritage and truth. In a 1983 Proclamation by Ronald Reagan requested by Congress to honor the “Year of the Bible,” the president of the United States very clearly identified the Word of God as foundational to the nation.
“Of the many influences that have shaped the United States of America into a distinctive Nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible,” the proclamation reads. “The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers’ abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual.”
No serious scholar — even godless or pagan ones — disputes the facts outlined by Reagan. In fact, at the top of the U.S. Supreme Court building is an image of Moses holding the two tablets of the Ten Commandments. The evidence is so overwhelming that it hardly needs to be addressed.
Incredibly, though, in 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court cited the “Lemon Test” and banned the Decalogue in schools using an incredible argument. “Posting of religious texts on the wall serves no such educational function,” wrote far-left Justice William Brennan in the ruling, claiming it could only be taught as “history” or “comparative religion” alongside other texts.
The ruling got even more ridiculous from there. “If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments are to have any effect at all, it will be to induce the schoolchildren to read, meditate upon, perhaps to venerate and obey, the Commandments,” it said, as if it were a bad thing to have children ponder objective morality and obey God’s moral laws.
The enemies of the Ten Commandments rarely state a clear objection to any of the commands. After all, even among pagans, thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not bear false witness, and others seem to be a rather reasonable moral code.
But now, legal experts say the environment has shifted. “In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the Court eliminated the Lemon Test, a legal precedent that stifled religious freedom for decades,” First Liberty Institute said, pointing out that the foundational argument used by the Supreme Court to ban the Tend Commandments had been overturned.
That means the growing trend in conservative states to bring God back into schools is likely to survive judicial onslaught. “With that precedent now gone, other cases grounded in Lemon’s framework are no longer controlling, such as Stone v. Graham, a 5-4 decision that banished the Ten Commandments from schools,” the religious liberty organization continued.

It appears likely that the courts will eventually recognize the obvious: America was founded as a Christian nation, and the Bible and the Ten Commandments are essential to real education. However, the reality is that even then, considering the history, government schools will not be a safe place for Christian children.
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