Lawyers ask Ten Commandments law be reinstated in public school classrooms in this state
A version of the Ten Commandments is posted, along with other historical documents, in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta. (Photo by John Bazemore/The Associated Press)
Lawyers for the state of Arkansas asked the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis on Tuesday to reinstate a law requiring that the Ten Commandments be posted in public school classrooms.
The 2025 state law establishes that “a historical representation of the Ten Commandments” be posted in public school classrooms and libraries if a poster or funds are donated for that purpose.
The poster must be at least 16 inches by 20 inches with text “legible to a person with average vision” and placed “in a conspicuous place,” according to a story by Courthouse News Service.
In March, Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks of the Western District of Arkansas ruled that Ten Commandments posters usurp parents’ ability to direct their children’s religious upbringing, and that the law “serves no educational purpose.”
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