Texas lawmakers advance bill that could upend 1980 Supreme Court ruling on Ten Commandments in schools

Proposal would put Biblical text on walls of K-12 public classrooms throughout state

Ten Commandments monument in Springer, N.M. Photo by Billy Hathorn. CC BY-SA 3.0 license.

The U.S. Supreme Court in 1980 found that a Kentucky law requiring public schools to post a copy of the Ten Commandments in every classroom was unconstitutional, but that isn’t stopping the Texas Legislature from advancing a bill that would do essentially the same t…