Alabama Senator's Ten Commandments Bill Sails Through Senate

0:00Alabama State Senator Keith Kelly just championed a bill called SB 99 that sailed through the Senate. It mandates every local school board to post the 10 commandments in history classrooms for 5th through 12th graders plus a context statement. Explaining its historical role, the posters got to be a bit bigger than legal size paper and they also go up in common areas for 5th grade and up. Kelly hit up Mobile's FM talk 106.5 to break it down, calling it a no-brainer for Alabama classrooms. He said opponents lack historical know-how and crafting the bill felt like a chess game dodging lawsuits from other states. Folds pushing back lean on separation of church and state, but Kelly points out that's not even in the Constitution. He argues it's not about pushing religion, just basics like don't kill or lie, values that shape culture is worldwide. He dug into history too, noting the Bible served as a reading textbook up to the 1920s or 30s. Things went downhill in schools after Bible reading and prayer guy yanked in the early 1960s.

1:04Kelly's bottom line, you can't strip God from our society, it's baked into who we are, like it or not. This has been Birmingham News Today, powered by AI. I'm Corey with The Story.