Louisiana's new law requiring all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments was temporarily blocked on Tuesday.
Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law.to display the Ten Commandments was temporarily blocked on Tuesday by a judge who called it "unconstitutional on its face and in all applications.
The lawsuit argues that requiring poster-sized displays of religious doctrine in classrooms violates the plaintiffs' First Amendment rights and the separation of church and state. The suit further argues that the law violates a U.S. Supreme Court precedent, pointing to the Stone v. Graham case in which the court overturned a similar 1980 Kentucky law, holding that the separation of church and state bars public schools from posting the Ten Commandments in classrooms.
Supporters of the law say the Ten Commandments have historical significance to the foundation of U.S. history and are not just a religious text.In July, both parties agreed that the Ten Commandments would not be posted in any public school classroom and that defendants -- including the state's Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education -- would not publicly move forward on the law's implementation until the court's decision in November.
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