https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/nx-s1-5230486/texas-ten-commandments-schools-legislature

From the NPR website:

"Key Texas legislators say they intend to pass a law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. The move would add some big-state momentum to a trend started by Louisiana last year with a law that is blocked in court but has other states looking at similar proposals.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a Republican, signaled the move last year after Louisiana's law passed. He said Texas should have been the first in the nation to adopt it and he swore the state would in 2025. He named it as one of the leading conservative priorities. The state's legislative session began this
month and is scheduled to end in June...

"...As in other states, Texas proponents argue that the commandments are a historical document.

"To be honest, if you don't know the Ten Commandments, you don't really know the basis for much of American history and law. It played such a role in our founding and among our founders," said state Sen. Phil King, a Republican from outside of Fort Worth who will help to lead the Texas effort. "In fact,
few documents have had a bigger impact on not just the United States but on Western civilization in general than the Ten Commandments."

Republican state Sen. Brandon Creighton, representing a district near Houston, heads the education committee and he too wants the Ten Commandments in every classroom.

"We can't hold our society back or hamstring the teaching of national pride and basic principles and morality because of someone, some way, somehow being offended," Creighton said in an interview, adding that the commandments are "principles that simply encourage people not to tell a lie to one another or
to dishonor your mother or father."..."

I'm going to interrupt here to point out that the Ten Commandments didn't stop either Joseph Smith or Brigham Young (among many other early Mormons) from practicing polygamy and polyandre. In fact, Joseph Smith destroyed the printing presses of those who were trying to alert the Carthage community about his lies on that subject, but I digress. Back to the story:

"...The Legislature is also poised to consider several other bills that would introduce religious displays or practices into government settings. They include measures to require a
nativity scene on the Texas Capitol grounds each December and to require schools to allow time for prayer or Bible study...

"...Robert Tuttle, law professor at Washington, DC's George Washington University (said)... "What we're seeing is an effort to extend the range of religious dominance – not religious freedom but religious dominance – in governmental space. And
it's very hard to square with long standing traditions of separation.""

The article and audio also note that North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, and Tennessee are also considering similar bills in their state legislatures this year. I wonder how long it will be before the Utah legislature tries to do the same thing. (And, if they're smart, they won't mention anything about the Book of Mormon in any proposed Utah bill...)

"Key Texas legislators say they intend to pass a law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms."

I also suggest a life-sized poster of Charlton Heston's Moses.

Which version?
The full one from King James or the truncated one we usually see?

If it is the full version maybe they can follow up by making slavery legal again - as it OK's the practice.

Then they can have classes about all the other Gods - since the full version is pretty clear they exist.

Won't get into just which Bible they should use.

They don't want the 10 commandments posted because it is a historical document.

Schools already allow time for prayer and Bible reading. It's called lunch, or study hall, or recess. Students have always been free to pray, read the Bible, or share their religious views with friends on their own time. My Mormon-convert friend would bring the BoM to school and read it on her free time.

The public schools are not and never have been religion-free. But they must be religion-neutral, a concept that Texans are having difficulty grasping.

To every action there is a reaction.

Forcing religion, forcing anything, often brings a backlash sooner or later. I'm hoping for sooner.

Could be worse. If Mel Brooks hadn't dropped one of the tablets, there would be 15 commandments.

10 Commandments weren't revealed or written by Christ, their origin is Jewish...

And Christ's origin isn't Jewish?

Besides, the origin doesn't matter. The real reason is given in the next to last paragraph in the OP - dominance, pure and simple. The Christers want to make it plain to everyone that they are the ones in charge here.

It's territory marking.