Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton doubled down on the implementation of the state's Ten Commandments law, issuing a formal legal advisory on the subject.
Collier County, Florida, commissioners voted 4–1 last week to include the Ten Commandments in public displays of historic documents in county buildings. The measure has provoked heated debate over religious influence in government settings, highlighting fault lines between moral heritage and church-state separation.
Attorney General Ken Paxton directed all Texas Independent School Districts (ISDs) not covered by a federal judge's order barring the Ten Commandments from classrooms to display them in compliance with state law.
"On Religious Freedom Day ... we commemorate the ... anniversary of the passing of a State law that has shaped and secured our cherished legacy of religious...
"Epiphany" is a Greek word meaning "appearance" or "manifestation," celebrating Christ's "manifestation" to the world, as foretold in Isaiah 49:6:
"I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end...