Families sue over Louisiana Ten Commandments classroom requirement

mandates public schools -- from kindergarten to the collegiate level -- to display the Ten Commandments, a religious set of rules from the Old Testament, in every classroom on "a poster or framed document that is at least 11 inches by 14 inches."

"Permanently posting the Ten Commandments in every Louisiana public school classroom - rendering them unavoidable - unconstitutionally pressures students into religious observance, veneration and adoption of the state's favored religious scripture," the complaint reads. The law argues that the Ten Commandments are also historically significant, reflecting "the understanding of the founders of our nation with respect to the necessity of civic morality to a functional self-government," the text reads.

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