Texas cannot require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, a judge said Wednesday in a temporary ruling against the state’s new requirement, making it the third such state law to be blocked by a court.
A group of Dallas-area families and faith leaders sought a preliminary injunction against the law, which goes into effect on Sept. 1. They say the requirement violates the First Amendment’s protections for the separation of church and state and the right to free religious exercise.
Texas is the largest state to attempt such a requirement, and U.S. District Judge Fred Biery’s ruling from San Antonio is the latest in a widening legal fight that’s expected to eventually go before the U.S. Supreme Court.
I feel like I read this story at least once a year, just swap out the name of a different red state each time. The party of small government will never stop trying to shove religion down our throats.
And you will continue to hear it every year until they win. It’s the same thing they did with abortion. Just keep hammering the issue over and over until the resistance is exhausted and they find a weak point in the defense and force their way through.
This is also known as “Republican courtship ritual”.
Every day this week has been a story about it being accepted into the texas classroom or it’s not. Tomorrow it’ll be a story about texas approving it agian.
They really want that theocracy, don’t they?
They want authoritarianism. They don’t care how they get there. It just so helps that much of their base is religious. It also helps that they can twist that religion to point at outgroups.
If the Flying Spaghetti Monster offered a way for people with money and power to accumulate more money and power, they absolutely would abandon Christianity and become pastafarians.