{"id":247097,"date":"2025-09-22T20:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/247097\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T20:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:04:17","slug":"yet-another-suit-filed-in-san-antonio-federal-court-to-challenge-texas-ten-commandments-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/247097\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet another suit filed in San Antonio federal court to challenge Texas’ Ten Commandments law"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AA monument at the Texas Capitol complex displays the Ten Commandments. Credit: Shutterstock \/ Eddie J. Rodriguez<\/p>\n

The ACLU of Texas and a group of religious freedom organizations have filed yet another lawsuit to block Texas\u2019 new state law mandating that public school classrooms display the Ten Commandments. <\/p>\n

The suit, filed Monday in federal district court in San Antonio, seeks to stop 14 Texas school districts, including Comal ISD, from implementing the law, which critics have accused of blatantly violating constitutional protections for freedom of religion. <\/p>\n

The legal challenge comes after a San Antonio federal judge in August temporarily blocked<\/a> the law, Senate Bill 10, from taking effect in 11 school districts around the state. That ruling came in response a suit filed by 16 families of various religious and nonreligious backgrounds whose children attended campuses in those districts.<\/p>\n

Attorneys for the ACLU and other organizations representing the plaintiffs in that suit said they hoped the ruling declaring SB 10 unconstitutional would persuade other districts to not move forward with the law\u2019s implementation. <\/p>\n

However, they now say it\u2019s apparent that more Texas families must challenge the state\u2019s mandate to make that point. Many districts are moving ahead in displaying the 10 Commandments despite court\u2019s block, the new suit charges.<\/p>\n

\u201cTexas families from religious and nonreligious backgrounds are once again coming together to challenge this blatantly unconstitutional law,\u201d ACLU of Texas Staff Attorney\u00a0Chloe Kempf said in an emailed statement.\u00a0\u201cThis lawsuit is a continuation of our work to defend the First Amendment and ensure that government officials stay out of personal family decisions. All students \u2014\u00a0regardless of their race or religious background \u2014 should feel accepted and free to be themselves in Texas public schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, in his August ruling against the Republican-backed law, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery said the statute favors Christianity over other faiths and would make non-Christian students feel like outsiders in their own communities. <\/p>\n

\u201cBy design and on its face, the statute mandates the\u00a0display of expressly religious scripture in every public school classroom,\u201d Biery wrote. \u201cThe Act also requires that a Judeo-Christian version of that scripture be used, that is exclusionary to all other faiths.\u201d<\/p>\n

A separate lawsuit<\/a> filed in federal court in Dallas also seeks to shut down the implementations of SB 10 on constitutional grounds. <\/p>\n

Texas has appealed Biery\u2019s ruling to the same appeals court that early this summer unanimously blocked<\/a> a Louisiana law requiring schools to the display of the Ten Commandments. <\/p>\n

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This article appears in sep 18 \u2013 Oct 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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