All school classrooms will be required to display the Ten Commandments if some Texas lawmakers have their way.

Similar proposals are in multiple states after a court ruling in 2022, though opponents say the move would impose one religious view on people with different religious traditions

Texas senator Phil King is planning to bring back legislation requiring Texas public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

Texas lawmakers plan on picking up an idea passed in Louisiana last year and now blocked in court — requiring the Ten Commandments be posted in public schools.

The new Texas legislative session that started Tuesday in Austin is set to test the boundaries between church and state. One of the major efforts will be a fresh bill seeking to mandate the placement of the Ten Commandments in all public-school classrooms.

Mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in Texas public schools not only violates the Constitution, it is emblematic of the extreme and divisive politics here that do not serve the public good.

North Dakota’s school boards already have a state law that gives them the ability to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms, if they are accompanied by other historical documents. Now, lawmakers are debating whether to require posting the commandments in every public K-12 and college classroom.

Conservative lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing to introduce more Christianity to public school classrooms, testing the separation of church and state by inserting Bible references into reading lessons and requiring teachers to post the Ten Commandments.

Marty Jackley supported the Louisiana law in court, but his spokesman Tony Mangan said he hasn't read the South Dakota bill yet.

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