Texas Hangs the Ten Commandments
A judge orders them into every Galveston classroom. Two rabbis want the Supreme Court in.
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Keep the Commandments in shul. Judge Jeth Jones ruled Thursday that Galveston's schools must hang the Ten Commandments in every classroom within 10 days. Attorney General Ken Paxton sued after the school board voted against the Protestant version a 2025 state law requires. Two rabbis, Mara Nathan of San Antonio and Joshua Fixler of Houston, want the Supreme Court to hear their challenge. Fixler hears from parents that their kids know "the state is elevating literally one religious tradition over all others." 4 We're with the rabbis. Our kids learn those ten lines from teachers we picked, in the translation we use, and a public school has no business choosing a church's edition for them. The Court struck down a nearly identical Kentucky law in 1980. It should say so again.
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