But that hasn't stopped supporters from trying again, this time attempting to cast the Commandments as a foundation of American legal doctrine with its pronouncements prohibiting killing and theft. This summer, the House tacked on a Ten Commandments amendment to a juvenile justice bill. Some backers say they don't care what the Supreme Court has ruled. I don't recognize the Supreme Court's laws any more than I recognize city laws. In the town of Perris, Calif., the Val Verde school board decided to post the Ten Commandments in school district offices but not in classrooms.
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It can also help the students with their problems and violence. On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court seeking to stop the display of the Biblical list. We have to stop looking to the public schools as the institution American that is expected to do everything, they can't do everything. What schools should be doing is enhancing the religious freedom of individual students, said Eric Treene, litigation director for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, an interfaith and public interest law firm based in Washington. The Ten Commandments are fine if they're presented in an educational context, such as talking about how they influenced the American judicial system or in discussing their historical impact, Treene said.