Texas law will require Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom

Austin, Texas – Texas will require that all public school classrooms display the ten commandments under a new law that will make the country’s largest state to try to impose such a mandate.

Governor Greg Abbott announced on Saturday that he had signed the bill, which should draw a legal challenge from criticisms which consider him an unconstitutional violation of the separation of the Church and the State.

A similar law in Louisiana was blocked when a federal court of appeal judged on Friday that it was unconstitutional. Arkansas also has a similar law which was challenged before the Federal Court.

The measurement of Texas is easily adopted in the State Chamber and in the Senate under the control of the Republican during the legislative session which ended on June 2.

“The objective of this bill is to examine what is historically important for our educational and judicial nation,” said the Republican representative of the State, Candy Noble, co-sponsor of the bill, when he adopted the Chamber.

Abbott has also signed a bill which allows school districts to provide students and staff a voluntary period of daily prayer or time to read a religious text during school hours.

The laws on the ten commandments are among the efforts, mainly in the states led by the conservatives, to insert religion into public schools.

The Texas Law forces public schools to display in classrooms a poster of 16 by 20 inches (41 per 51 centimeter) or a copy framed by a specific English version of commandments, even if translations and interpretations vary to the other from a confession, confessions and languages ​​and can delay in houses and worship homes.

Supporters say that the ten commandments are part of the United States judicial and educational systems foundation and should be posted.

Opponents, including certain Christian and others religious leaders, say that the ten commandments and prayer measures relate to the religious freedom of others.

A letter signed this year by dozens of Christian and Jewish religious leaders opposing the bill noted that Texas has thousands of students from other faiths who may have no connection with the ten commandments. Texas has nearly 6 million students in around 9,100 public schools.

In 2005, Abbott, who was the state prosecutor at the time, successfully supported the Supreme Court that Texas could keep a monument of ten commandments on the grounds of its Capitol.

Louisiana’s law was deemed unconstitutional twice by the federal courts, first by the American district judge John Degravelles, then again by a panel of three judges of the 5th Circuit Court of American Appeals, who also considers the affairs of Texas.

The prosecutor general of the State, Liz Murrell, said that she would appeal and undertake to prevail at the Supreme Court of the United States if necessary.