(Reuters) – A U.S. judge in Louisiana ruled on Tuesday that the state’s law requiring the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom is unconstitutional, a court filing showed.
U.S. District Court Judge John deGravelles wrote that the measure signed into law in June by Governor Jeff Landry, a Republican, violates the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.
The First Amendment prohibits the government from the “establishment of religion,” and in 1980 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Stone v. Graham that a Kentucky law on the posting of the Ten Commandments in school was unconstitutional.
In the Christian and Jewish faiths, God revealed the Ten Commandments to Hebrew prophet Moses.
(Reporting by Brendan O’Brien in Chicago; editing by Rami Ayyub)
