A newly-passed Texas law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms is facing a second ...

The law books record it as State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes. History remembers it as the “ Monkey Trial .” The case ...

On July 2 2025, 16 families in Texas of different religious and nonreligious backgrounds filed suit in federal court to the ...

When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was serving as his state’s attorney general in 2005, he appeared before the Supreme Court to argue Van Orden v. Perry.

Sixteen Texas families of multiple faiths and nonreligious backgrounds filed the case against multiple school districts ...

A granite Ten Commandments monument stands on the ground of the Texas Capitol, Thursday, May 29, 2025, in Austin, Texas. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas will require all public school classrooms to ...

1. I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me. 2. You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain. 3. Remember to keep holy the Lord's day. 4. Honor your father ...

A. The Commandments of God are these ten: 1.1. I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.

The plaintiffs argue the mandate violates the First Amendment’s protections for religious freedom and the separation of church and state.

The text of what Christians call the Ten Commandments comes from two places in the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament as some ...