Justices Asked to Hear Case On Ten Commandments
The families say the law pressures students to accept a state-favored scripture and violates parents' right to direct religious instruction.
- Civil rights groups and over two dozen multifaith families petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a Texas law requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.
- The legal petition challenges Texas Senate Bill 10, which mandates that K-12 public schools permanently and conspicuously display a state-approved King James Bible version of the Ten Commandments in every classroom.
- Plaintiffs—Represented by the ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation—argue the law violates the First Amendment by imposing state-selected religious scripture on students.
- The appeal asks the high court to overturn a 9–8 ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the mandate on the grounds that it does not violate the Establishment or Free Exercise Clauses.
- The plaintiffs point to the landmark 1980 precedent Stone v. Graham, where the Supreme Court struck down a similar Kentucky classroom mandate, while the 5th Circuit relied on more recent rulings regarding historical practices.
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After Louisiana passed a law requiring the Ten Commandments in every public-school classroom, Texas and other states followed. Right on cue, activist groups like the ACLU are reaching for the same tired line they’ve been using for 50 years. These groups have sued, arguing there’s supposed to be a “wall of separation between church and state.” Lower courts bought it, striking the displays down as “plainly unconstitutional.” Here’s the problem. Th…
Texas families ask Supreme Court to hear appeal on Ten Commandments law
Aug. 18 (UPI) — A group of Texas families are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a challenge to a state law that requires public schools to post a version of the Ten Commandments in a visible spot in every classroom. The more-than-two-dozen families of various religious faiths and none are appealing a lower court’s decision in April to uphold Senate Bill 10. The families are from 22 school districts throughout the state and are represented by…
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked the Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court ruling that upheld a Texas law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms. “The question of whether a state may impose scripture on impressionable, captive-audience children—for nearly every hour of every school day, for up to thirteen years—implicates the most fundamental guarantees of the First Amendment and our Nation’s highes…
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