Rep. Jim Olsen (R-Roland) wants every public school to display the Ten Commandments in each classroom of the school. He filed a bill for the 2024 legislative session that would require this.

The bill says the Ten Commandments must be on a poster or a framed copy in a conspicuous place. The bill says the text must read:

I AM the LORD thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven images. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his cattle, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.

Rep. Olsen is a very conservative and religious member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.