“Even though the Ten Commandments would not be affirmatively taught, the captive audience of students likely would have questions, which teachers would feel compelled to answer. That is what they do,...

A federal judge in Texas temporarily halted on Wednesday a state law that would have required the Ten Commandments to be visibly displayed in every public school classroom by Sept. 1.

One pastor plaintiff, Griff Martin, said displaying the Ten Commandments was “un-American and un-Baptist” since it violated the bedrock principle of his family’s Baptist heritage.