The polarizing court battle over Texas’ Ten Commandments display law has reignited the debate over religion in public schools. Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose office is defending the requirement, ...

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Stone tablets depicting the Ten Commandments are shown outside the Supreme Court in Washington June 27, 2005, placed there during a vigil by a religious group. In Louisiana, Public school classrooms ...

Controversy over the commandments is not new. In more than a dozen early cases, courts generally upheld laws and policies mandating their recitation in schools. These enactments survived because the ...