SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A South Dakota Senator wants to require every classroom in South Dakota to display the Ten Commandments. Republican John Carley’s bill passed with a 4-3 vote in a Senate Education hearing yesterday morning. The bill was supposed to be heard by the full Senate This afternoon, but it was deferred to Monday.

Senate Bill 51 would require school districts to display the Ten Commandments in each classroom in each school. The poster or document could be no smaller than eight by 14 inches. The Commandments must be the focus of the poster and in large, easily readable font.

We’ve heard a lot from lawmakers this week, so we stopped by Josiah’s Coffeehouse and Cafe to talk with people about the proposed law.

“I think the Ten Commandments are super important but I don’t know if it should be mandatory in every school or not, I think it could be up to the classroom and teachers but I do believe kids should be allowed to talk about their faith and what they believe in if they want to,” said Madison Theisen of Sioux Falls.

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“I don’t necessarily think that the state should make children have that in their classroom, and the free speech to talk about their faith talk about it with one another is great, but I don’t think the Ten Commandments belong in a public classroom, I think there are private Christian school for a reason,” said Sidney Riggs of Sioux Falls.

“What’s interesting is I’m Jewish I’m also a Rabbi, we have what we call the ten sayings,” said jack Eisenberg of Sioux Falls. “Everybody whether you are Muslim, Christian, Catholic Jewish whatever, Sikh we all have those same things and they are basically what’s in the ten sayings or ten commandments.”

A similar bill passed in Louisiana but a lawsuit filed by the Civil Liberties Union ended with a federal Judge ruling it unconstitutional