A federal judge ruled that an Arkansas law requiring public classrooms to display the Ten Commandments cannot be enforced in four of the state's largest school districts. Parents challenged the law based on separation of church and state principles. The ruling is part of a larger trend in Republican-led states pushing for increased religious presence in public education. Laws similar to Arkansas' have been passed in Texas and Louisiana, and the matter may eventually reach the U.S. Supreme Court. The ACLU represented families opposing the law.
"Why would Arkansas pass an obviously unconstitutional law? Most likely because the state is part of a coordinated strategy among several states to inject Christian religious doctrine into public-school classrooms."
"The court saw through this attempt to impose religious doctrine in public schools and upheld every student's right to learn free from government-imposed faith."
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