Texas’ GOP-led Senate is pushing one bill that would require all public elementary schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, while another measure would open the door for prayer and Bible study.
Most of the red-state culture wars have centered on relatively new acronyms––like CRT , DEI , and ESG ––that Republican lawmakers presumably had little to no knowledge of until recently. But in Texas––where Republicans have already scored victories on many contemporary culture war issues––state lawmakers are now attempting to win a battle lost by the evangelical right decades ago.
On Thursday, the Texas Senate passed a bill mandating that all public elementary and secondary schools in the state display “a durable poster or framed copy” of the Ten Commandments in every classroom. Senate Bill 1515, if enacted into law, would require the text to be presented in a “conspicuous” place and font so as to be legible “anywhere in the classroom.” The bill even includes a minimum size requirement for the posters: 16 inches wide and 20 inches tall.
If signed into law, both measures would no doubt face legal challenges, as has been the case throughout the decades-long effort by Christian activists to inject the Ten Commandments into courtrooms and schools. In 1980, the Supreme Court ruled inthat a Kentucky statute forcing schools to display a copy of the Ten Commandments violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
Meanwhile, red states have also sought to regulate reproductive care along religious lines, imposing draconian abortion restrictions that could have a negative impact on higher education enrollment in red states. A new survey by Gallup and the Lumina Foundation found that 72% of college students said that “the reproductive health laws in the state where their college is located are at least somewhat important to their decision to stay enrolled.
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