Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883

Is posting the Ten Commandments in schools constitutional?

The continued revival of interest among state legislatures in posting the Ten Commandments in public schools may present to the U.S. Supreme Court an opportunity to reverse yet another decades- old, landmark precedent, this time one that prohibits such displays on grounds that they promote religion in violation of the First Amendment’s establishment clause.

Although time expired in the legislative...