ICC Note: This coming November, Alabama residents will vote on an amendment to that state constitution regarding the presence of Ten Commandments displays on public grounds. If passed, the amendment would permit, but not require, such displays to be placed on government property. Even still, such displays would need to adhere to constitutional restrictions to present the displays in a historical or educational perspective rather than a religious one.

03/23/2018 United States (Christian News Network) – Residents in Alabama will vote this November on a proposed amendment to the state Constitution that would expressly allow the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public buildings and schools.

The Alabama House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved S.B. 181 on Thursday 66 to 19 after the measure likewise cleared the House last month with a strongly supportive vote of 23-3.

As previously reported, the bill, presented by Sen. Gerald Dial, R-Lineville, allows the Ten Commandments to be displayed if desired but does not require it, and mandates that the display be done in what is deemed a constitutional manner.

“Property belonging to the state may be used to display the Ten Commandments, and the right of a public school and public body to display the Ten Commandments on property owned or administrated by a public school or public body in this state is not restrained or abridged,” the bill reads in part. “The civil and political rights, privileges, and capacities of no person shall be diminished or enlarged on account of his or her religious belief.”

“The Ten Commandments shall be displayed in a manner that complies with constitutional requirements, including, but not limited to, being intermingled with historical or educational items, or both, in a larger display within or on property owned or administrated by a public school or public body,” it outlines.

Read the bill in full here.

Dial, 81, said that he believes that children might rethink harming their fellow students if they see God’s law before their eyes.

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