A lawsuit filed this week against the state-mandated Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms argues the requirement violates a parental rights amendment voters added to the Texas Constitution last November.
The suit, brought by three Houston-area mothers, could be the first test of the GOP-backed constitutional amendment, which declares that parents have the “right to make decisions concerning the child’s upbringing.”
“The State has changed what I teach my children about religion, how I teach it, and when I teach it,” said Dr. Audrey Rosa Nath, whose two children attend Houston ISD. “I used to spend (my time) teaching them what our family believes. Now I spend it rebutting a text the State ordered into their classroom, in a room where I am not present and cannot answer.”…