Texas judge temporarily blocks law requiring Ten Commandments in schools

""They share one thing in common," he wrote. "Plaintiffs do not wish their children to be pressured, to observe venerate, or adopt the religious doctrine contained in the Ten Commandments.""

""impractical, if not impossible to prevent Plaintiffs from being subjected to unwelcome religious displays""

""Once again, a federal court has recognized that the Constitution bars public schools from forcing religious scripture on students," Mach said."

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction requiring certain Texas public school districts to remove displays of the Ten Commandments under a lawsuit challenging a state law that mandates posting the Ten Commandments. Families from agnostic, atheist, Jewish, Christian, Hindu and Baha'i backgrounds assert the law violates the Establishment Clause and object to religious pressure on students. The judge wrote that plaintiffs do not wish their children to be pressured or to adopt the doctrine and that enforcement would make it impractical, if not impossible, to prevent unwelcome religious displays. Similar laws in Arkansas and Louisiana face related legal defeats, and courts may ultimately refer the issue to the US Supreme Court. The injunction is temporary pending further proceedings.

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