An Oklahoma police chief will stop publishing religi­ous posts on his police department’s Facebook page after advocates deemed the posts unconstitutional.

Mounds Police Department Chief Antonio Porter had been posting Bible-themed messages, including verses and lessons on the department’s page.

The ACLU of Oklahoma sent a letter informing Porter and Mounds Mayor Rosa Jackson that religious posts were an endorsement of religion from the department, hence violating the First Amendment.

An Oklahoma couple who worship a devil from an ancient, non-Christian religion filed a lawsuit in August against their children’s public school district, alleging that multiple district employees have harassed their family because of their “alternative non-Christian-based religion.”

Americans United is awaiting action from East Central University in Ada, Okla., after requesting the removal of a Christian cross, Bibles and an altar from the publicly funded university’s Kathryn P. Boswell Memorial Chapel.

AU’s Legal Department, acting in response to a local complaint, notified university officials on June 20 that the permanent religious iconography on display at the chapel violates the U.S. Constitution because it shows government endorsement of a particular religion.

Oklahoma legislators are considering a bill that would undermine sound science education in the state’s public schools.

SB 393 passed the state Senate and was facing a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives as this issue went to press. It would encourage public school teachers to teach “scientific controversies.”

Critics of the bill, including Americans United, argued that “scientific controversy” is code for undermining evolution with religious concepts like intelligent design and creationism.

Americans United is speaking out against a bill in Oklaho­ma that would bring formal prayer back into public schools.

The bill, SB 450, is euphemistically called the “Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act.” The measure would prohibit school districts from restricting what it calls a student’s “voluntary religious expression in the classroom.”