Federal judge temporarily blocks Arkansas Ten Commandments classroom law

A federal judge prevented some Arkansas districts from displaying ten commands in their classrooms under a new state law under a new state law.

An appointment of prohibition-east President Barack Obama from American District Judge Timothy Brooks affects four districts in North Western Arkansas and comes in response to the trial filed by a coalition of multi-confident families, who argued that the need for religious demonstrations violates their religious freedom and parents’ rights. According to Kur, the court action cannot be implemented until then.

“Why would Arkansas clearly pass unconstitutional law?” Brooks wrote in the decision of his 35-hit. “Most likely, because the state is part of a coordinated strategy between many states that injures Christian religious theory into public-school classes.”

“Act 573 is not neutral in relation to religion,” he also quoted Kur Saying that the Ten Commandments Act, given that “a specific version of that scripture should be used, one that shows uncontrolled evidence in this case is associated with Protestantism and is associated with exclusion of other religions.”

Arkansas families sued to keep 10 commandments out of class before the new law came into effect

The Republican village Sarah Hukabi Sanders signed earlier this year is effective on Tuesday and ten commandments need to be prominently displayed in public school classes and libraries. The lawsuit against it was filed by the American Civil Liberty Union, the Americans on behalf of the families to unite for the separation of the Church and the State and the Dharma Foundation.

Attorney General Tim Griffin, whose office defended the law, told the Associated Press that he was reviewing the decision and assessing legal options.

The lawsuit nominated the four school districts in Northwest Arkansas as defenders as Fytville, Bentonville, Siloam Springs and Springdell.

According to ACLU, the plaintiffs were asking for an initial prohibition to prevent the implementation of the law.

The trial stated, “Posting ten commandments permanently in every class and library – to present them indispensably – unconstitutionally pressures students to adopt religious rearing, worship and adopt the state’s favorite religious scripture,” is said in the lawsuit.

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“It also sends harmful and religious divisive messages that students who do not take membership of ten commandments – or, more accurately, for a specific version of ten commands, which act 573 needs to display schools – not in their own school community and pressurize them to prevent any belief practices or beliefs.”

The decision of Brooks applies only to four of the 237 districts of the state. It is not immediately clear that groups filed the case will seek a broad block of law beyond four districts.

ACLU of Arkansas Executive Director Holi Bailey told AP through a spokesperson that “it is clear from this order and long -established law that everyone should avoid posting ten commandments in public school classes.”

Similar requirements enacted in Texas and Louisiana are also being challenged in court. A group of families and belief leaders filed a lawsuit a few days after the law was signed in the law to block the requirements of Texas.

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Last month in Louisiana – The first state to make ten commandments compulsory should be displayed in classes – a panel of three appellate judges ruled that the law was unconstitutional.

Fox News’ Christine Park and Associated Press contributed to this report.