Federal court upholds Texas law requiring Ten Commandments in public classrooms
The court said the displays are educational and not coercive, setting up a possible appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- On Tuesday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Texas law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms, ruling the mandate does not violate the First Amendment.
- The Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 10 in 2025, with Gov. Greg Abbott signing it into law last June, requiring schools to display donated posters measuring at least 16 by 20 inches in visible classroom spaces.
- Representing 18 families, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit arguing the law violates the First Amendment by forcing children to "observe and venerate" a state-mandated religious text.
- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called the "separation of church and state" a "bogus claim," while the court ruled that Senate Bill 10 requires no religious exercise or observance from students.
- The decision could be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled public displays of the Ten Commandments unconstitutional in 1980, creating potential conflict with the Fifth Circuit's ruling.
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Fifth Circuit Says Texas Free To Shove Ten Commandments Down Schoolchildren's Throats
Texas is now free to force schools to post the Ten Commandments in every classroom in the state, as per a no-good-very-bad ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturning a lower court’s block on the no-good-very-bad law. Somehow, possibly because they are especially daft, the court found that the law did not violate the First Amendment or amount to the establishment of religion. “No child is made to recite the Commandments, believe t…
‘Coercive indoctrination’? Appellate judges make monumental ruling on displaying Ten Commandments in classrooms * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
Source link The Ten Commandments stand at the 21st annual Bible Reading Marathon in Stuart, Florida, on Friday, Nov. 12, 2021. (Photo by Joe Kovacs) It’s because, supporters say, the Ten Commandments are part of America’s historical and moral heritage that they should be displayed in classrooms. So Texas lawmakers wrote a law providing that the
A federal appeals court upheld Texas' S.B. 10 law requiring that the Ten Commandments be placed in public school classrooms, in a decision that represents a victory for Governor Greg Abbott and the promoters of the bill.A court upheld the Ten Commandments law for Texas schoolsThe decision was issued by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal, which determined that the law does not violate the U.S. Constitution in terms of separation between Church and…
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