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Families ask Supreme Court to block Texas classroom Ten Commandments law

A2D News Desk

A coalition of multifaith families asked the Supreme Court on Aug. 17 to rule that Texas cannot require public schools to display the Ten Commandments, setting up a possible fight over religion in public classrooms.

The families are appealing a 9-7 April decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld Texas Senate Bill 10, enacted last year. The law requires a Ten Commandments poster in a visible spot in every public elementary and secondary school classroom in Texas.

Lawyers for the families argue the appeals court disregarded a 1980 Supreme Court decision that struck down a similar Kentucky law under the First Amendment’s establishment clause. The 5th Circuit said the reasoning behind that decision was displaced by later Supreme Court rulings on religious rights.

The families are represented by groups including Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton previously called the appeals court ruling a major victory for Texas and its moral values.

Read the full story at USA Today.

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