U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton, said he found issues with displaying the commandments.
By Catholics for Catholics
A U.S. district judge appointed by former President Bill Clinton temporarily obstructed a new Texas law for some school districts on Wednesday, stopping them from being required to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.
According to The Daily Wire, Gov. Greg Abbot signed into law in June Texas Senate Bill 10 (S.B. 10). It stated, “a public elementary or secondary school shall display in a conspicuous place in each classroom of the school a durable poster or framed copy of the Ten Commandments.”
Nevertheless, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery delivered an injunction that excluded 11 school districts named as defendants in a lawsuit from exhibiting the Ten Commandments. Other public school districts in the state are still bound by the law, which takes effect September 1st.
“Even though the Ten Commandments would not be affirmatively taught, the captive audience of students likely would have questions, which teachers would feel compelled to answer,” Biery wrote. “There is also insufficient evidence of a broader tradition of using the Ten Commandments in public education, and there is no tradition of permanently displaying the Ten Commandments in public-school classrooms. … There are ways in which students could be taught any relevant history of the Ten Commandments without the state selecting an official version of scripture, approving it in state law, and then displaying it in every classroom on a permanent basis.”
The Wire reported that Texas would be the biggest state to make the Ten Commandments to be exhibited in public schools. Louisiana was the first to pass a law last year, but a federal appeals court blocked it.
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