Austin, Texas (AP) – Texas demands from all classrooms of the public school to display the ten commandments according to a new law, which makes the state the largest of the nation to try to impose such a mandate.
Governor Greg ABBOTT announced on Saturday that he signed the draft law, that of critics who consider him an unconstitutional violation of the separation of the church and the state, a legal contestation of the critics.
A similar law in Louisiana was blocked when an appellate court decided on Friday that it was unconstitutional. Arkansas also has a similar law that was contested before a federal court.
The measure in Texas in the Republican -controlled state house and Senate in the legislative meeting, which ended on June 2.
“The focus of this law is on the investigation of what is historically important for our national and judicial nation,” said the Republican representative of Candy Noble, a co-sponsor of the law when he passed the house.
Abbott also signed a legislation that enables school districts to offer students and employees a daily voluntary prayer period or time to read a religious text during school.
The ten bid laws belong to the efforts, mainly in conservative countries, to include religion in public schools.
The law of Texas requires public schools to publish a 161-to-51 centimeter poster in classrooms or a framed copy of a certain English version of the bids, although translations and interpretations in the houses and houses are different.
Followers say the ten commandments are part of the basis of the United States judicial and education systems and should be displayed.
Opponents, including some Christian and other beliefs, say that the ten commandments and prayer figures violate the religious freedom of others.
In a letter from dozens of Christian and Jewish faith leaders signed this year, Texas found that thousands of students of other beliefs that may not have been able to combine to the ten could have been offered. Texas has almost 6 million students in around 9,100 public schools.
In 2005, Abbott, who was then the attorney in general, successfully argued in front of the Supreme Court that Texas could keep a monument of ten commandments based on his Capitol.
The Louisiana law was twice described twice by federal courts, first by John Degravelles, and then again by a three-judge committee of the 5th US Court, which also takes into account cases from Texas, twice for unconstitutional.
Attorney General Liz Murrell said that she would make an appeal and promised to bring it to the United States’ Supreme Court if necessary.
