The fight over posting the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms returned to court Jan. 20 when the full 17-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in two cases challenging new laws in Louisiana and Texas. The court heard two hours of debate without rendering a decision.

Last year, Arkansas passed Act 573 requiring display of the Ten Commandments in public schools and libraries. This is a big deal.

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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 10 into law Saturday, making Texas the latest state to require public elementary and secondary schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom starting with the 2025-2026 school year.

Jackson County High School posts the Ten Commandments in the front hall of the school, shown here, and in every classroom, in Jackson County, Kentucky, on March 29, 2000. On Wednesday, Aug. 20, a federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked a law requiring ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several parents of various religious backgrounds are suing Texas to block a new state law requiring that public schools display the Ten Commandments, as seen on a monument at the state ...

When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott served as his state's attorney general in 2005, he appeared before the Supreme Court to argue Van Orden v. Perry. The question was whether a monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments that had stood on the grounds of the Texas ...

Indiana already mandates public schools teach every moral value promoted by the Ten Commandments. That includes abstinence-focused rather than comprehensive sexual education emphasizing the importance of sex only within a faithful marriage. In other words, "thou shalt not commit adultery."