Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms, a U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for conservatives who have long sought to incorporate more religion into schools.

The ruling sets up a potential clash at the U.S. Supreme Court over the issue in the future. Arkansas and Louisiana have passed similar laws, which have also been challenged in courts.

And Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a similar law earlier this moth.

  • TheTetrapod@lemmy.world
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    The Satanic Temple is a non-religious civil rights organization, and this has been their primary tactic for years because it works. When you point out to John Q. Public that allowing the 10 Commandments into classrooms will also open the doors to the 7 Tenets of Satanism, it either causes a reversal of course or bulldozes a path for wider religious acceptance.

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      The Satanic Temple is a non-religious civil rights organization

      Yes, that’s the problem I pointed out in the previous comment.

      it either causes a reversal of course or bulldozes a path for wider religious acceptance.

      No, it causes people to dismiss your concerns that arose from a satirical and insincere religion.

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            You don’t actually understand a word you’re talking about, and it’s extremely obvious to everyone but yourself

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              Would you care to explain what I’m wrong about or did you just come here to be offended and lob personal insults in return?

              E: thanks for the downvote, personal insults it is, I guess.