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A Dallas appellate court has reversed a trial court's decision that previously denied motions to dismiss Gateway Church and some church elders from a defamation lawsuit from the woman Morris sexually abused when she was a child.

Civil rights advocates have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Texas law requiring the state's public schools to display the Ten Commandments. Monday's petition tees up a case that could set a new national standard for the limits of religious expression in classrooms. Posters with the Ten Commandments began going up almost a year ago in classrooms across Texas, a state that educates about 5.5 million students. An appeals court earlier this year cleared the way for the Texas law and one in Louisiana, and similar laws have been passed in Arkansas and Alabama.

The Horizon Texas Conference sued Highland Park United Methodist Church, after it says the church failed to make changes.

Campaigning for the U.S. Senate, Paxton says he was 鈥渄elivered by God鈥� to protect Texas from leftists. Talarico鈥檚 focus: 鈥淵ou can鈥檛 love God and hate other people.鈥�

The lawsuit, which claimed Gateway Church mishandled millions of dollars in church donations, was dismissed last month. The former church members who filed the suit are asking that decision to be appealed, according to a July 17 court filing.

Frisco is getting a new mosque, Hindu temple and Jain temple 鈥� and many immigrants say that's led to new hostility from some of their neighbors.

A Texas Monthly writer has been investigating sexual abuse allegations in the Southern Baptist Convention for almost ten years.

Organizers and local leaders say other private religious events have been held at publicly owned venues without issue 鈥� and that the canceled event at Epic Waters in Grand Prairie was targeted by politicians.

Judge David Ezra wrote in an order Wednesday that religious bias played a role in the former head of the Texas Funeral Service Commission's oversight of an investigation into the East Plano Islamic Center.

The State Board of Education on Friday approved a new reading list that includes numerous Bible passages, and a social studies curriculum that emphasizes U.S. and Texas history over world cultures. Approved changes start taking effect in 2030.

The Texas board of education is set to vote on a required reading list for more than 5 million public school students that includes stories and passages from the Bible. Texas has been at the forefront of conservative efforts to incorporate religion into schools.

Nearly 500 people signed up to testify in a hearing that at several points turned contentious as the State Board of Education will vote on incorporating more Christian stories into public classrooms.