A group of 18 multi-faith and nonreligious Texas families filed a class action lawsuit Tuesday in San Antonio federal court to block public school districts statewide from displaying the Ten Commandments.
Since the GOP-controlled Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 10, which requires the religious text be posted in every classroom, two federal judges have ruled the law unconstitutional and blocked the displays in districts named as defendants.
Even so, other Texas districts not directly involved in the previous suits continue to display the Ten Commandments, according to groups representing the plaintiffs in Tuesday’s filing. Those organizations — which include the ACLU and the Freedom From Religion Foundation — say a class action is needed to ensure students in all 1,000 districts statewide are free from having Christian doctrine stuffed down their throats…