God’s Big Return To US Classrooms Could Happen In 2025

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A series of bills across multiple states could see God’s Word returned to classroom walls across the U.S. in 2025.

States including South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Tennessee, Oklahoma and more are all poised to vote on whether the Ten Commandments is displayed in every public school classroom and its history taught as part of the local curriculum. The bills typically require the words to be displayed as a poster-sized printout, accompanied by a context statement “explaining the role of the Ten Commandments in American history and our legal system,” according to First Liberty.

The Montana bill advanced on Friday, Jan. 31 through the Senate Judiciary Committee in a partisan 6-3 vote, according to NBC Montana. “U.S and Montana laws are based on the [Ten] Commandments. Moses, the law giver, is depicted on the U.S. Supreme court building. Montana has laws against murder theft and perjury that originated in the [Ten] Commandments,” said former Republican chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee Keith Regier. “Why would we keep that history from Montana students?”

Louisiana’s Legal Hold-Up

Louisiana is the only state currently requiring the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public school classrooms, but the bill is also being held-up by the courts, NBC Montana noted. U.S. District Judge John deGravelles, who believes the bill is “discriminatory and coercive,” ruled in Nov. 2024 that the law was unconstitutional, according to Reuters. (POPULAR: Trump Keeps Major Campaign Promises In First Weeks)

“To be honest, if you don’t know the Ten Commandments, you don’t really know the basis for much of American history and law. It played such a role in our founding and among our founders,” Texas Republican state Sen. Phil King said of the situation. “In fact, few documents have had a bigger impact on not just the United States but on Western civilization in general than the Ten Commandments.”

Where Did This Movement Start?

In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-to-3 in favor of high school football coach Joseph Kennedy’s right to pray at the 5-yard line at the end of each game, claimed NPR. “Respect for religious expressions is indispensable to life in a free and diverse Republic. Here, a government entity sought to punish an individual for engaging in a personal religious observance, based on a mistaken view that it has a duty to suppress religious observances even as it allows comparable secular speech. The Constitution neither mandates nor tolerates that kind of discrimination. Mr. Kennedy is entitled to summary judgment on his religious exercise and free speech claims,” wrote Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch at the time. (POPULAR: Generation MAGA: Trump, Vance’s Epic Support Of Life)

The decision overturned a short-held legal precedent regarding the constitutionality of public religious displays. It’s believed the Ten Commandments were a prominent part of American education for almost three centuries prior to 1980, when the prior legal precedent was held against it. The first purely American educational textbook “New England Primer” was published by Benjamin Harris in Boston in 1690, featuring an in-depth section on the Ten Commandments.

In the context of American history, 45 years, from 1980 to 2025, without having the Ten Commandments in our education system doesn’t seem like a very long time, especially when you take into account it was part of our curriculum from at least 1690 to 1980 (that’s 290 years). But ask yourself: how do the last 45 years compare to the previous 290?

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