A federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to lift a hold on a Louisiana law requiring all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.

The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit means the state may not make posting the biblical directives mandatory while it appeals a lower court's decision that called the law "unconstitutional on its face."

Earlier this year, Louisiana became the first state in the nation to require the Ten Commandments to go up in........

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