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BREAKING: Federal court holds TX law that requires public schools to display 10 Commandments is likely unconstitutional

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Heather Lynn Weaver
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BREAKING: A federal court has held that Texas SB 10, which requires public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, is likely unconstitutional. The court issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the defendants in the case from complying with the law.

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BREAKING: Federal court holds TX law that requires public schools to display 10 Commandments is likely unconstitutional (Original Post) In It to Win It Aug 20 OP

d'oh BoRaGard Aug 20 #1

Yip, was going to say, Why/THANK you Federal court! UTUSN Aug 20 #2

I swear, do these politicians know putting up the 10 Commandments invites sakabatou Aug 20 #3

Of course not; only *their* god is real Orrex Aug 20 #10

I was ready to insist Luvcatz14 Aug 20 #12

Not in Tejas. paleotn Aug 20 #17

Hang this next to it. Ping Tung Aug 20 #4

Perfect Duppers Thursday #18

Judge temporarily blocks Texas' Ten Commandments requirement in 11 school districts LetMyPeopleVote Aug 20 #5

We should require elected officals randr Aug 20 #6

If we did, I can only imagine... Xavier Breath Aug 20 #7

TSF pays a lot of attention to that list .... CloudWatcher Aug 20 #8

Biblical punishments for non-compliance are harsher. Let's bring those back too. paleotn Aug 20 #15

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion Mblaze Aug 20 #9

I cheered in my car when I heard this. mwmisses4289 Aug 20 #11

likely unconstitutional. yep. twodogsbarking Aug 20 #13

Likely? paleotn Aug 20 #14

Likely unconstitutional? spanone Aug 20 #16

BoRaGard

(7,126 posts)

1. d'oh

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

Wed Aug 20, 2025, 11:09 AM

Aug 20

Did somebody actually read the Constitution?

Good on 'em.

Republicons should try that sometime. Like now.

UTUSN

(75,394 posts)

2. Yip, was going to say, Why/THANK you Federal court!

Reply to BoRaGard (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 20, 2025, 11:14 AM

Aug 20

sakabatou

(45,234 posts)

3. I swear, do these politicians know putting up the 10 Commandments invites

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

Wed Aug 20, 2025, 11:21 AM

Aug 20

other religious statues on public property?

Orrex

(65,852 posts)

10. Of course not; only *their* god is real

Reply to sakabatou (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 20, 2025, 01:00 PM

Aug 20

And these court cases let them cast themselves as righteous victims of religious persecution.

Luvcatz14

(36 posts)

12. I was ready to insist

Reply to sakabatou (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 20, 2025, 01:25 PM

Aug 20

That my daughter’s school include the Eight I’d Really Rather You Didn’ts to include our Pastafarianism. We wouldn’t want to be left out if commandments are being displayed.

paleotn

(20,775 posts)

17. Not in Tejas.

Reply to sakabatou (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 20, 2025, 01:59 PM

Aug 20

Ping Tung

(3,432 posts)

4. Hang this next to it.

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

Wed Aug 20, 2025, 11:35 AM

Aug 20

Duppers

(28,406 posts)

18. Perfect

Reply to Ping Tung (Reply #4)

Thu Aug 21, 2025, 03:03 AM

Thursday

I've always appreciated this & have never read a logical counter.

LetMyPeopleVote

(168,648 posts)

5. Judge temporarily blocks Texas' Ten Commandments requirement in 11 school districts

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

Wed Aug 20, 2025, 11:39 AM

Aug 20

This was a stupid move by Abbot and the Texas GOP

Judge temporarily blocks Texasâ€™ Ten Commandments requirement in 11 school districts www.texastribune.org/2025/06/26/t... via @texastribune.org
— (@newmexicanextexan.bsky.social) 2025-08-20T15:22:05.920Z

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/26/texas-schools-commandments-requirement-lawsuit

A Texas federal judge on Wednesday blocked from taking full effect a new state law requiring public schools to display donated posters of the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

The ruling only applies to the nearly a dozen Texas school districts named in the lawsuit, though attorneys who brought forth the lawsuit expressed hope in court that other districts would not implement a law that a federal judge has now found unconstitutional.

Oral arguments in the case, Rabbi Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District, concluded on Monday, several weeks after 16 parents of various religious backgrounds, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and other religious freedom organizations, sued the state over what their lawyers called "catastrophically unconstitutional” legislation.

In court, they argued with a lawyer from the state attorney general's office over the role Founding Fathers like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison played in developing the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment, which protects the freedom of religion. Both parties also debated the influence of the Ten Commandments on the country's legal and educational systems, and whether the version of the Ten Commandments required to go up in schools belongs to a particular religious group.....

The attorneys called the version of the Ten Commandments in SB 10 a "state-sponsored Protestant version," which was corroborated by their witness, constitutional law professor and religious history expert Steven Green. They argued against the notion that the Ten Commandments were central to the development of the country's legal and educational systems, which Green agreed lacks historical support.

Although the ACLU lawsuit only applies to 11 school districts, attorneys for the religious freedom organizations hope that a ruling in their favor will signal to districts throughout the rest of the state that they should not comply with the law before the dispute gets resolved by the courts.

randr

(12,578 posts)

6. We should require elected officals

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

Wed Aug 20, 2025, 12:10 PM

Aug 20

to adhere to the Commandments. Any breach deserves ejection.

Xavier Breath

(6,045 posts)

7. If we did, I can only imagine...

Reply to randr (Reply #6)

Wed Aug 20, 2025, 12:18 PM

Aug 20

CloudWatcher

(2,113 posts)

8. TSF pays a lot of attention to that list ....

Reply to randr (Reply #6)

Wed Aug 20, 2025, 12:53 PM

Aug 20

But he calls breaking each one his bucket list.

paleotn

(20,775 posts)

15. Biblical punishments for non-compliance are harsher. Let's bring those back too.

Reply to randr (Reply #6)

Wed Aug 20, 2025, 01:58 PM

Aug 20

Mblaze

(682 posts)

9. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

Wed Aug 20, 2025, 12:55 PM

Aug 20

Jesus was asked: "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment.

And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments,"

mwmisses4289

(1,952 posts)

11. I cheered in my car when I heard this.

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

Wed Aug 20, 2025, 01:13 PM

Aug 20

Post them in a private so called christian school, but not in a taxpayer funded public school where children of all faiths or none are going.

twodogsbarking

(15,245 posts)

13. likely unconstitutional. yep.

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

Wed Aug 20, 2025, 01:46 PM

Aug 20

paleotn

(20,775 posts)

14. Likely?

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

Wed Aug 20, 2025, 01:56 PM

Aug 20

"You shall have no other gods before me" The first 3 are "Judeo Christianity or the highway!" before you even get into anything remotely moral. And even those are "well, duh" and universal. Almost like an afterthought. That feels an awful lot like state religion to me.

But I guess we take wins when we get them. That commandment about lying. Repukes need to focus on that one. Maybe even adultery.

spanone

(139,943 posts)

16. Likely unconstitutional?

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

Wed Aug 20, 2025, 01:58 PM

Aug 20

How about FUCKING UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

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