In a research paper posted last month, Nathan Chapman, a law professor at the University of Georgia, along with Samuel Bray of the University of Chicago and Brent Strawn of Duke, assessed the Texas law requiring all public elementary and secondary school classrooms in the state to display a poster or framed copy of the Ten Commandments and found it to be clearly unconstitutional, noted Adam Liptak, chief legal affairs correspondent of the New York Times.

The authors said they are not hostile to religion, Liptak continued in The Docket. “On the contrary,” they wrote, “all three of us are practicing Christians for whom the Ten Commandments are part of sacred scripture.”

But they concluded that “the Texas law presents an easy case.” The state, they wrote, “has assumed the authority to determine and declare religious truth in violation of the Establishment Clause.”

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