Rural Virginia battle for Ten Commandments

Students and community leaders in rural southwestern Virginia have staked out their own Alamo trying to preserve something they hold dear. On Monday morning, dozens of supporters protested the removal of the Ten Commandments from Giles County schools where they have been displayed the past 12 years.

Giles began posting the Ten Commandments, along with the U.S. Constitution, after one of America’s deadliest school shootings occurred at Colorado’s Columbine High School in 1999, a tragedy that ended with the death of 14 students and one teacher. After all, those moral tenets include the one that says, “Thou shalt not kill.”