The legislator in Texas achieves a big win to bring ten bids into classrooms

The Republicans in Texas cheer the erosion of separating the church and the state as a proposal to sign all classrooms of the public school in the Lone Star State to show the ten commandments closer and closer to the finish line.

On Saturday, the Republican -controlled house gave its preliminary approval for the draft law, which will be expected in the coming days. Subsequently, governor Greg Abbott, who was successfully issued in 2005 in front of the Supreme Court over the ten bids in front of Texas State Capitol, would be signed in the law.

The law would require public schools to show a 16-inch poster with a 16-inch poster or a framed copy of a certain English-language version of the bids, although the exact translations differ depending on the denomination used and the source text used.

Democratic attempts to change the legislative template so that schools also show texts from other religions or have failed various translations of the commandments.

If the legislation provides the law, Texas would become the largest state that prescribes the advertisement of the ten commandments in classrooms and follows its neighbor Louisiana, which last year passed a similar law, and Arkansas, which has passed a similar law last month. The Louisiana law is currently pending legal challenges after a judge decided that it was “unconstitutional on his face”.

Texas State Rep. Candy Noble, a co-sponsor of the legislation, said that his focus was on examining what is “historically important for our national and judicial nation”. During the ground debate, Noble also said: “It is American to follow God's law, and I think we were all better off if we did it.”

When it passes, the law of critics who consider it as a violation of the separation of the church and the state are faced with similar constitutional challenges as Louisiana's law. In a letter signed by dozens of Christian and Jewish beliefs, it found that thousands of students who were trained in the schools in Texas offered no relationship to Christianity or the ten.

Robert Tuttle, professor of religion and law at George Washington University, said about the draft law: “The constant presence of a holy text in the room with them effectively tells them:” Hey, these are things that you should read and follow. “He added.

If the draft law is passed, he will undoubtedly compare legal challenges that could bring the fight to the Supreme Court. Critics of the proposal are confident that the latest dead end of the court in the case of the country's first religious Charter School in Oklahoma means that the court has not fully abandoned the principle of separating the church and the state. The 4: 4 split of the Supreme Court means that the Oklahoma Supreme Court is under the founding of the Catholic Charter School.

The Texas legislators have recently also passed a measure in which school districts offer students and employees every day to pray or read a religious text every day, which Governor Abbott is expected. In contrast to the display of the ten commandments, this measure is completely voluntary and applicable for practitioners of all religions.

The democratic state representative James Talarico was nevertheless concerned that the language of the law could increase the ability of school teachers and administrators to reward and show the school prayer. He argued: “When we teach teachers and school leaders, those in power positions, religion, especially children, their religion, we undermine the freedom of religion that made this state and this country great, and it is a threat to religious and non -religious people.”