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“Permanently posting the Ten Commandments in every Louisiana public-school classroom—rendering them unavoidable—unconstitutionally pressures students into religious observance, veneration, and adoption of the state’s favored religious scripture,” the parents wrote in their court filing.

Events unfolded differently beginning Monday morning, when pro-Palestinian Jewish and non-Jewish students erected a tent-like structure in observance of the Jewish holiday of Sukkah in an off-limits central campus court.

Observance of the Sabbath was once so strict that play park swings were chained up at dusk on Saturday, and hanging out washing on a Sunday was frowned upon.

The party says it wants to uphold the UK’s observance of the international system, which guarantees in law the fair treatment of refugees.

But some fear that concentrating the observance might have limiting effects.