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Texas families ask Supreme Court to review Ten Commandments classroom law
PN Team • 2 months ago
More than two dozen Texas families are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a challenge to Senate Bill 10, a state law requiring public schools to display a version of the Ten Commandments in every classroom. Represented by the ACLU, the ACLU of Texas, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the families span 22 school districts and various faiths. They are appealing an April ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that found the law does not violate the First Amendment's establishment or free exercise clauses.
Plaintiffs argue the mandate imposes one religious viewpoint on children and cite the 1980 Supreme Court case Stone v. Graham, which struck down a similar Kentucky law. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has defended the law as reflecting the nation's moral values. The case could prompt the Supreme Court to revisit decades-old precedent on religion in public schools.
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- Texas Texas is depicted as enforcing a law found by families to impose religious viewpoints on schoolchildren, casting a mildly negative light on the state.
- United States Senate Referenced only as the origin of Senate Bill 10, a factual mention without reputational weight.