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Federal judge blocks law texas:
The law had to come into federal judge blocks law texas force on 1is september. An American federal judge blocked. on Wednesday August 20, a Texas law demanding that public schools display the ten commandments in each classroom. Judge Fred Biery issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the implementation of the law disputed by families of students of. various denominations.
This law is unconstitutional. “Takes inadmissibly on theological issues and officially promotes Christian denominations to the detriment of others”he wrote in his 55-page judgment.
The display of the ten commandments in the classrooms is “Likely to send a message of exclusion. spiritually weighing” to children, giving them the feeling of being “Foreigners who do not belong to their own school community”he argues.
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Rabbine Mara Nathan. one of the complainants in this case, praised the judgment. “The religious beliefs of children should be instilled by parents. communities of faith, and not by political figures and public schools”she reacted.
Rachel Laser. president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, an association dedicated to the defense of secularism, also approved the decision. She sends a “Strong. resounding message through the country that the government respects the religious freedom of each student in our public schools”she said.
Another federal judge had blocked in November a similar law in Louisiana, another conservative state in the southern United States. He had deemed it contrary to the first amendment of the American Constitution. which federal judge blocks law texas prohibits the establishment of a national religion and prohibited to promote one religion on another.
Religious freedom and the separation of the Church and the State are founding principles in the United States. In 1980. the Supreme Court of the United States had already judged that a law providing for the display of the ten commandments in the public schools of Kentucky (Center-East) was unconstitutional. The highest official of education in Oklahoma ordered in June 2024 to public schools in this state in the South of the United States to teach the Bible. a controversial decision which is also contested in court.
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