Compulsory Paganism

State schools in Texas cannot yet be compelled to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. Several Christian states have attempted to enact such a law, and Texas is the largest and latest to fail, at least until the god-bothering howler monkeys of the United States Supreme Court are required to jabber out a ruling upon the matter. Campaigners for the repeal of the First Amendment cite the founding influence of the Ten Commandments on the US judicial and educational systems, whereby the Fifth Commandment prescribes capital punishment, the Second Commandment praises the Statue of Liberty and the Lincoln Memorial, and the Tenth Commandment proclaims the merits of aspirational consumerism in a competitive market. Even so, thanks to the Satanic machinations of that very same judicial system, it remains non-compulsory even in Texas to display before schoolchildren a document that implicitly endorses slavery and explicitly lists wives as possessions of their husbands.