Misguided attempt to put Ten Commandments in school will cost Texas | Opinion
We understand the impetus to expose Texas children to a familiar moral code when the internet bombards our kids daily with troubling and confusing messages. But the fact remains that public education must be secular in nature, and the Ten Commandments are an explicitly religious text that demands the worship of God and the observance of the Sabbath.
The high court officially killed a three-part legal analysis known as the Lemon test that weighed whether a law had a secular purpose, among other things. Instead, it called for consideration of historical practices., a book used by American schoolchildren in the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries. The book was written for our country’s then mostly Protestant population; the United States of today is much more diverse, and a growing number of Americans are nonreligious.
It’s also worth noting that the Kennedy case deals with the question of whether a school employee’s prayer was private speech and not with clearly school-sponsored materials enshrining a religious code devoid of any other context. A guiding principle for past Supreme Court decisions regarding religion in schools has been whether schools were subtly or directly coercing students to embrace a religious tradition.
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