According to a settlement that a federal judge granted on Friday, Louisiana will postpone enforcing a mandate that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school in the state until at least November.
Parents of children attending public schools in Louisiana who come from different religious backgrounds filed a lawsuit in June, claiming that the law breaks First Amendment provisions that prohibit the establishment of religion by the government and protect religious liberty.
The Ten Commandments are a historical text and the cornerstone of American law, according to supporters of the law, hence they should be taught in schools.
The U.S. Supreme Court held in 1980 that a comparable Kentucky statute was unconstitutional under the U.S. Constitution’s establishment clause, which states that Congress is not allowed to “make any law respecting an establishment of religion.”
According to the high court, the law served a blatantly religious objective rather than any secular one.
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The Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that the Constitution was broken by these kinds of exhibits in two Kentucky courthouses.
Simultaneously, the court maintained the Ten Commandments monument located on the Texas state Capitol premises in Austin.
