In June, the Texas legislature passed a law requiring that the Ten Commandments be posted in every public elementary and secondary school classroom. By any reasonable calculus, this law is unconstitutional. Whether it will eventually be declared such is to be determined. If the Supreme Court eventually gets to weigh in, the Republican justices will likely undermine the wall between church and state even more than they have weakened it already.
My essay The Texas Ten Commandments Law examines the details of the Texas legislation. I examine the source of the biblical text that must be on the mandated posters and consider why some people might think passing this law was a good idea.
