An Arkansas school district that defied a court order and put Ten Commandments posters up in classrooms has now been ordered by a federal judge to take them down.
I’ve been writing about these attempts to shove Christianity into classrooms for a while now, but here’s the short version of what happened in Arkansas: Their law required every public school classroom to display a copy of the Ten Commandments. Those posters didn’t even need a disclaimer explaining the supposed historical relevance of the Decalogue.
Similar laws have already been struck down by the courts and this was was even more egregious than those, which is why a coalition of church/state separation groups filed a lawsuit against it.
When U.S. District Court Judge Timothy L. Brooks (an Obama appointee) finally weighed in earlier this month, he issued a preliminary injunction, putting the law on hold, at least in the districts attended by the students involved in this case. Everyone was still waiting for him to issue a final ruling that might apply statewide.
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