Texas can’t require display of the Ten Commandments in certain school districts’ classrooms, judge says

A judge on a temporary ruling against the requirements of the new state said that Texas cannot ask for public schools in Houston, Austin and other areas selected to display the ten wills in each semester.

Texas is the third country in which the courts prevented the recent laws on the position of ten commandments in schools.

A group of families from the educational areas sought a preliminary judicial order against the law, which enters into force on September 1. They say that the condition violates the protection of the first amendment to the separation of the Church and the state and the right to freedom to religious exercises.

Texas is the largest state to try such a condition, and the rule of the American boycott judge Farid Perry from Saint Antonio is the latest in a medium legal battle that is expected to eventually go to the US Supreme Court.

“Although the ten wills will not be taught positively, the prisoner of the students most likely will have questions, which the teachers will feel forced to answer. This is what they are doing,” Berry, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, wrote in the ruling that begins to quote from the first amendment and ends with “Amen”.

The ruling is prohibited for 11 provinces and companies affiliated with the publication of the required offers under the state law. The law is challenged by a group of Christian, Jewish, Hindu, unified and non -religious international families, including clerics, who have children in public schools.

A broader lawsuit called three areas in the Dallas region, as well as the government education agency and commissioner hanging in the Federal Court. Although the ruling on Friday represents a major victory over civil freedom groups, the legal battle has not ended yet.

The Texas Pact Prosecutor said he intended to challenge the ruling, describing it as “defective.”

The Republican said in a statement: “The ten wills are the cornerstone of our moral and legal heritage, and its presence in the classroom is a reminder of the values that direct the responsible citizenship.”

Texas has a memorial for ten commandments on the Capitol land and won the 2005 Supreme Court case that supported the memorial.

The families that filed a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Americans were united to separate the church and the state and liberate from the Foundation of Religion.

“The court confirmed what we have said long ago: public schools are for education, not preaching,” said Tommy Bouzer, a staff lawyer in the Civil Liberties Union in Texas.

The Federal Appeal Court prevented a similar law in Louisiana, and a judge in Arkansas informed four areas that they could not put up posters, although the other regions of the state said they did not set them as well. In Louisiana, the first mandate imposed the ten commandments to be presented in the classroom, a committee of three appeals judges in June ruled that the law is unconstitutional.

Biery, the judge, was martyred by Louisiana and Arkansas issues in his 55 -page ruling. It also includes large -scale historical references, and it was transmitted from the founding fathers to the missionary Billy Graham, and even the Rambrant painting of Musa carrying the stones tablets along with a picture of the actor Charlton Histon in the movie “The Ten Commandments”.

The presence of presentations in the classroom, most likely, is likely to pressure children from parents who challenge them to adopt the preferred state debt and suppress their religious beliefs. The judge said that there are ways that students can learn the history of the ten commandments without placing them in each semester.

“For those who do not agree with the court’s decision and who will do this with threats, threats, violence, grace and peace for you,” he wrote. “All religions, beliefs and lack of belief in each other may be reconciled.”