Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday directed the vast majority of school districts across his state to follow a law mandating them to display the Ten Commandments, despite a federal judge blocking the measure for nearly a dozen school districts that sued the state.
U.S. District Court Judge Fred Biery ruled last Wednesday that a Texas law set to take effect on Sept. 1 likely violates the Constitution. But despite this ruling, Paxton directed Texas’ Independent School Districts not involved in the ongoing religious freedom lawsuit to follow the law.
“From the beginning, the Ten Commandments have been irrevocably intertwined with America’s legal, moral, and historical heritage,” Paxton wrote in a Monday press release. “The woke radicals seeking to erase our nation’s history will be defeated. I will not back down from defending the virtues and values that built this country.”