More than a dozen Texas families filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Sept. 22 seeking to stop their school districts from displaying a state-prescribed version of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.
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The suit maintains the mandated displays violate the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It further asserts the state’s main interest in requiring the classroom Ten Commandments displays is “the imposition of religious beliefs and tenets on public-school children.”
Plaintiffs in Cribbs Ringer v. Comal Independent School District are asking the court to declare the law mandating the Ten Commandments displays violates the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.
They also are seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction that would require their districts to remove any classroom Ten Commandments displays and refrain from hanging new ones pending resolution of the suit.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Ken Camp and originally published by Baptist Standard.
