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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · last yr.

this is good and all of course but can we talk about the actual ruling because it’s a lot storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Case 5:25-cv-00756-FB Document 78 Filed 08/20/25 Page 3 of 55 In The Beginning ....' Rabbi Mara Nathan and other Plaintiffs request the Court to preliminarily enjoin the implementation of SB 10, a Texas statute requiring the posting of the allegedly Protestant version of the Ten Commandments in Texas public schools, arguing that the statute violates the higher law of the United States Constitution. The Government schools and the Attorney General of Texas say the statute is constitutional and that the preliminary injunction should be denied. The Government schools and the Attorney General of Texas also move to dismiss Plaintiffs' complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction and failure to state a claim. Presumably, Rabbi Nathan and Baptist Reverend Vickrey both try to follow their religions and to inculcate those values to their congregants and their own children. But they come from the different faith backgrounds of their childhood. Indeed, forty years ago a Methodist preacher told a then much younger judge, "Fred, if you had been born in Tibet, you would be a Buddhist." By filing this case, Rabbi Nathan and Reverend Vickrey, through the latter's published statements, agree these matters of individual conscience and the soul should be free of government interference and coercion. Historically, Baptists were early advocates for church-state separation and religious freedom because of their experience of persecution. The American principle protected dissenters like themselves and had the additional benefits of protecting all religious minorities, including the non-religious... The separation of church and state protects our spiritual integrity and keeps our democracy intact.... Real religious freedom frees us from hatred and levels out hierarchies. ? 'Genesis 1:1. *Reverend Cameron Vickrey, In Defense of Separation of Church and State (San Antonio Express News, April 6, 2025). -3-Case 5:25-cv-00756-FB Document 78 Filed 08/20/25 Page 5 of 55 In European culture, there was another "separation" from the "government" of the Vatican in Rome. It was the "protest" of Martin Luther, giving birth to numerous branches and versions of the Protestant Christian denominations. II. Eternity is a Long Time Diversity of Homo Sapiens Religious and Life After Death Beliefs Though most of the eight billion Homo sapiens* have no knowledge they are traveling 66,000 miles per hour around the sun,' they have evolved over several million years to be the only species which knows it will die. Not wanting their existence to end, Homo sapiens developed a multitude of theories and hopes, encompassed in thousands of religions," of how they can avoid returning to the Earth from whence they and other species came. Or, as the country western song says: "Everybody wanna go to heaven, but nobody wanna go now." In the past 10,000 years of human societal development, those belief systems have included the multiple gods of the ancient Romans, Greeks and Egyptians, the monotheism of the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the reincarnation beliefs of Buddhism, and the various religious beliefs and practices of the Shintoists, Hindus, Mayans, Aztecs and Incas, to name but a few. *United Nations Population Prospects: The 2024 Revision. SEDUMOND LEDGER, THE SUN: ITS PLANETS AND THEIR SATELLITES 57 (Hazell, Watson and Viney 1882). *LEWIS M. HOPFE AND MARK R. WOODWARD, RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD II (Prentice Hall, 7th ed. 1998) (" In the long period of human life on earth, there have been thousands of religions."); ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN RELIGIONS (J. Gordon Melton, ed. 7th ed. 2002) (presenting coverage of more than 2,500 North American religious groups in the U.S. and Canada); Adherents. corn: National & World Religion Statistics-Church Statistics- World Religions, www.adherents.com) (collecting "statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religiou…Case 5:25-cv-00756-FB Document 78 Filed 08/20/25 Page 21 of 55 III. The Current Case Before the Court and Recent Developments in Church-State Law The Court finds the issues before it can be distilled as follows: 1. Exposure v. coercion. 2. Is Roake v. Brumley, 756 F. Supp. 3d 93, 119 (M.D. La. 2024), aff d 141 F.4th 614 (5th Cir. 2025), motion for rehearing en banc filed on June 27, 2025, binding on this Court? The document at the center of this dispute is popularized in the imagination by Rembrandt Harmenszoon von Rijn,"$ Cecil B. DeMille," and Charlton Heston: 9h 4142 701970144 Parents and religious leaders, individually and on behalf of their minor children, bring this action against certain school districts in Texas asserting facial challenges under the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause to Senate Bill No. 10 ("S.B. 10" or the "Act"), the Texas statute requiring the display of a specific version of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. Plaintiffs filed a motion for preliminary injunction to enjoin enforcement of the statute and displays of the Ten Commandments in the classrooms. School districts represented by the Texas 65(1606-1669). 6(1881-1959) The Ten Commandments is an epic American religious drama film produced, directed and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille and released by Paramount Pictures on November 8, 1956. Https://www.cecilbdemille.com. -21-Conclusion Ultimately, in matters of conscienos, faith, beliefs and the soul, most poople are Garbo-csquc." They just want to be left alone, neither prosclytized nor ostracized, including what occurs to their chikiren in soverment run schools. Even though the Ten Commandments would not be affirmatively taught, the captive audience of students likely would have questions, which teachers would foel compelled to answer. That is what they do. Teenage boys, being the curious hormonally driven creatures they are, might ask: "Mrs. Walker, I know about lying and I love my parents, but how do I do adultery?" Truly an awkward moment for overworked and underpaid educators, who already have to deal with sex education issucs, Manmont, 149 s, Cl al 2999, and a classic example of too law of uninicnoco cococoucaces u Notwithstanding the sausage making process" of legislation, to avoid religious rancor and legal wrangling the Texas Legislature alternatively could roquire the posting of: Multaple versions of lesseen of behavior from many cultures melded into the Amencat. motto of "E olunbus unum." a conccot currently in decline. For examola, the Five Moral Precepts of Buddhism: abstain from killing, stealing, engaging in sexual misconduct, Iving and intoxicants: or Greta Garbo is attrituled as saying "I want to he alone" in the movie Grand Hatel, directed by lamuna Goldine Maro-Golfwan-Maver 1937)l The phease "Lams are like sausages, its bener not to sce thom being made" is efica amribunad to Ofte vor Bismarck. https://buddho.org/to/dhis-and-morality-the-five peccepts. -$4. Case 5:25-cv-00756-FB Document 78 Filed 08/20/25 Page 55 of 55 Do unto Chers as you wouki have them do unto you. Be kid. Be respotlal, oe All 1 Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: "Share evcrything. Play Fair. Don't hit pcople... Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say ...Live a balanced life.... When you go out into the world,. hold hands, and stick together.""" IT IS THEREFORE…
ACLU@aclu.org · last yr.

NEW: We sent a letter to Texas school districts warning them not to implement a new law that requires all public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. This week, a federal court deemed the law “plainly unconstitutional.” Public schools are not Sunday schools.