Texas can’t require public schools to display Ten Commandments in class, judge rules | Texas

Texas cannot ask the public schools to exhibit ten orders in every class, a judge has made a temporary decision against the new requirement of the state on Wednesday, which made it a state law that would be prevented by a court.

A group of Dallas Region family and faith leader decided against the laws that came into force on September 1. They say that the First Amendment of the Requirement violates the protection of the separation of the church and the state, and the right to freedom of religious exercises.

Texas is the greatest state to try such a requirement, and the decision of the US regional judge Fred Biery’s San Antonio’s decision is the last expanding legal struggle expected to go to the US Supreme Court.

“Although ten orders are not taught in a positive way, the captive mass of students will probably have questions that teachers will have to answer. This is what they do,” written In the 55 -page decision, which started with the first change and ended with the “Amen”.

“[T]His exhibitions will put pressure on the adoption of religious observations, meditation, respect and religious sacred texts preferred by the child plaintiffs and to suppress the expression of his own religious or non -religious past and beliefs while in school. “

Biery continued: “There is no inadequate proof of a wider tradition of using ten orders in public education, and there is no tradition of exhibiting ten orders in public school classes. Students, without choosing an official version of the holy books, and then there is no relevant history of the ten orders shown in each class.

The case calls Texas Education Agency, State Education Commissioner Mike Morath and three Dallas regions as the defendant.

Range The preliminary precautionary measure, the plaintiff Rabbi Mara Nathan said: orum I welcomed this decision as a parent of the rabbi and the public school.

Heather Weaver, the Senior Advisor to the Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Religion and Freedom of the Union of American Civil Freedoms, reiterated similar feelings.

Weaver, “Public Schools are not market schools. Today’s decision, regardless of the beliefs of the schools of our customers, all the students are satisfied and the state’s preferred religious beliefs that they can learn without worrying that they can learn,” he said.

In the meantime, Freedom Co -President Annie Laurie Gaylor from the Religious Foundation said: “Religious teaching should be left to parents, not to the state that does not tell anyone who will have, which gods will have or have any gods.”

A Federal Court of Appeal prevented a similar law in Louisiana, and a judge in Arkansas said they could not put posters in four regions, but other regions in the state said they did not put them.

Although the decision of Friday shows a great gain for the civilian freedom groups that say that the law violates the separation of the church and the state, the legal war is probably far from ending.

Religious groups and conservatives say that ten orders are part of the basis of the US judicial and educational systems and should be exhibited. Texas has a Ten Monument in Capitol Grounds and won the case of the 2005 Supreme Court, which could not upheld the monument.

In Louisiana – the first state that necessitates the ten orders is exhibited in classes – in June, a panel of three appeals in a panel of three appeals decided that the law was contrary to the constitution.