DALLAS -- A federal judge ruled Wednesday to temporarily block a new Texas law requiring school districts to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

The judge agreed with a group of multifaith and nonreligious families that the law will interfere with their children's religious education and send a harmful message.

In a statement, Attorney General Ken Paxton said he will "absolutely be appealing this flawed decision."

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, in his ruling, found the law "officially favors Christian dominations over others" and "crosses the line from exposure to coercion." Classroom displays of the Ten Commandments "are likely to send an exclusionary and spiritually burdensome message" to the plaintiff families' children that they are "the other," he wrote.

"The displays are

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