The ten Texas commandments in school law disputed by families and religious leaders in the trial

A group of families from the Dallas region and religious leaders has filed a legal action aimed at blocking a new Texas law which requires that copies of the ten commandments be published in each class of public school.

The federal trial, deposited on Tuesday, says that the measure is an unconstitutional violation of the separation of church and state.

Texas is the last and the greatest state to try a mandate that has encountered legal challenges elsewhere. A Federal Court of Appeal Friday blocked A similar law in Louisiana. Some families continued on the law of Arkansas.

The complainants of the Texas trial are a group of Christians and nationals of the faith of Islam and families. He appoints Texas Education Agency, the state education commissioner Mike Morath and three school districts in the Dallas region as defendants.

“The government should govern; the Church should serve,” said the trial. “Everything else is a threat to the soul of our democracy and our faith.”

The laws on ten commandments are Among the effortsMainly in the states led by the conservatives, to insert religion into public schools. Supporters say that the ten commandments are part of the United States judicial and educational systems foundation and should be posted.

The Republican Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, signed the measure of the ten commandments on June 21. He also promulgated a measure requiring school districts to provide students and staff with a daily voluntary period of prayer or time to read a religious text during school hours.

The Texas Education Agency did not immediately respond to a request for comments sent by email.

Abbott, who was the Texas Attorney General in 2005 when he managed to compete for the United States Supreme Court to keep a monument of ten commandments for the State Capitol, defended the state class law in a social media position on Wednesday.

“Faith and freedom are the foundation of our nation”, Abbott posted on x. “If someone will continue, we will win this battle.”

Opponents say that the ten commandments and prayer measures relate to the religious freedom of others, and more prosecution are expected. The American Civil Liberties Union, the United Americans for the separation of the Church and the State and the Freedom to Religion Foundation have declared that they would deposit opposite prosecution to the measure of the ten commandments.

Under the new law, public schools must display in classrooms a poster of 16 per 20 inches (41 per 51 centimeter) or a larger or supervised copy of a specific English version of commandments, even if the translations and interpretations vary according to names, confessions and languages ​​and can differ in houses and worship homes.

The trial notes that Texas has nearly 6 million students in around 9,100 public schools, including thousands of confessions who have little or no link with the ten commandments, or can have no faith at all.

The Texas Education Agency did not immediately respond to a request for comments sent by email. The law takes effect on September 1, but most public school districts are starting the next school year in August.