A group of Texas families is taking legal action, suing more than a dozen public school districts over plans to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Several North Texas school districts are named in the lawsuit, including Fort Worth ISD.
The ACLU filed the lawsuit on behalf of 15 multifaith and nonreligious families. The families are suing 14 public school districts over plans to display the Ten Commandments, arguing the state law violates their religious freedom and the separation of church and state.
Concerns about faith and coercion
“Well, the children don’t want to go into school every day, and have the Ten Commandments, and a specific version of the Ten Commandments be imposed on them, when that could not be their faith, or even some people who it is their faith, that is not what they go to public school for,” said Sarah Corning, one of the ACLU attorneys representing the families.
Of the 14 school districts named in the lawsuit, nine are in North Texas, including Arlington ISD, McKinney ISD, Frisco ISD, Mansfield ISD, Northwest ISD, Azle ISD, Lovejoy ISD, Rockwall ISD, and Fort Worth ISD.
Federal judge previously blocked law
The new suit comes a month after a federal judge temporarily blocked the law in a separate case involving Plano ISD. That ruling found the law “crosses the line from exposure to coercion” and favors Christianity over other faiths…