The Texas measure easily passed in the Republican-controlled state House and Senate in the legislative session that ended June 2.

Texas will require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a new law that will make the state the nation’s largest to attempt to impose such a mandate.

Gov. Greg Abbott announced Saturday that he signed the bill, which is expected to draw a legal challenge from critics who consider it an unconstitutional violation of the separation of church and state.

A similar law in Louisiana was blocked when a federal appeals court ruled Friday that it was unconstitutional. Arkansas also has a similar law that has been challenged in federal court.

  • BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz
    782·
    1 day ago

    Passing Laws that have ALREADY been Deemed UNCONSTITUTIONAL is a GREAT use of Taxpayer Money!

  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    1 day ago

    And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

    Matthew 6:5-6

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      22·
      1 day ago

      This verse is superceded by the Supply Side Jesus version

      Be sure to rub your faith into the face of your enemies, especially if they are woke and liberal. Because seeing them panic makes God happy and therefore you happy. While you’re at it, make sure everyone with dark colored skin suffers even more.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      IKR? I cannot tell you how many xtians get butthurt when I tell them that “the” bible that they pretend to looooove so very much tells them to keep their religion in the closet. Literally.

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
      6·
      1 day ago

      What is the school gonna do with ten X’s? Pretty sure this dude isn’t honoring his father or mother.

    • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      23 hours ago

      I can understand the appeal of the Ten Commandments to conservatives. Each commandment has its own prescribed punishment and for Texans, especially, I’m sure they all sound fantastic:

      1. Death.
      2. Death.
      3. Death.
      4. Death.
      5. Death.
      6. Death.
      7. Death.
      8. Death.
      9. Death.
      10. Feces on their faces.
  • runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    12·
    1 day ago

    Meanwhile someone at the ACLU:

    Network Documents/

     Templates/
      Religious bullshit/
           Church-state violations/
                Texas/
                     _print_
  • BassTurd@lemmy.world
    92·
    1 day ago

    I’m calling on all Texas children everywhere to vandalize these commandments at every opportunity. Maybe you can’t or shouldn’t march during tense situations on the streets, but you can protest in the class room. Walkouts, sit ins, general malfeasance… Let’s see what this younger generation has.

  • msprout@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 day ago

    looks at American media, seeing guns, violence, and killing glorified as a wonderful and direct means of solving problems

    Hmm. Are we sure these are the correct Ten Commandments? There’s not even anything in here about how seeing a woman’s boob on television is a mortal sin.

    • RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world
      14·
      1 day ago

      this is nothing new, Republicans have been trying to do shit like this since I can remember and it fails in court every single fucking time

        • Optional@lemmy.world
          4·
          1 day ago

          Unrelated (?)

          The Nuclear Option: Judicial Engineering by Design

          The term “nuclear option” sounds dramatic, but what unfolded was exactly that: a procedural detonation that reshaped the U.S. judiciary—and cleared the runway for Donald Trump’s legal invincibility. In 2017, Mitch McConnell pulled the nuclear trigger for Supreme Court confirmations. Facing a filibuster on Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch, McConnell changed the rules to force him through with just 51 votes.

          What followed was a full-on Federalist Society takeover of the federal judiciary:

          • 3 Supreme Court justices: Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett
          • Over 200 lower court judges, all fast-tracked under the new simple-majority rules

          Let’s just say: McConnell caught the car—which turned out to be a MAGA bus barreling straight toward the Constitution. And no, his idol Ronald Reagan wouldn’t be pleased—at this trajectory, our children will soon be learning Russian.

        • RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world
          25·
          1 day ago

          that doesn’t matter as much as you might think it does and Biden pack the courts like crazy as well before Trump came back into power I wouldn’t worry about that as much necessarily

          • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            1 day ago

            and Biden pack the courts like crazy as well before Trump came back into power

            Tell me more about this. How so?

          • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
            4·
            1 day ago

            Yet it was a Trump judge vying for a promotion that allowed him to retain control of CAs national guard.

            It was a Trump judge that allowed him free from consequence for how he stored confidential documents in a bathroom near a copier while allowing visitors. There are enough of them and 6 on the Supreme court.