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Texans are putting the Ten Commandments back in schools.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the requirement into the state’s education act last week, after Senate Bill 10 2025 (SB10) passed with a majority.

20 of the State’s 31 senators voted in favour of the addition.

SB10 requires that state-run schools “display framed copy or durable poster of the Ten Commandments in a conspicuous place in each classroom of the school.”

10 Commandments Displayed in Texan Classrooms

Where schools do not have a copy of the Ten Commandments, they will not be required to buy one.

However, those schools will be required to “accept any offer of a privately donated poster or framed copy,” without exception.

SB10’s version of the Ten Commandments is sourced from the King James Version.

Controversially, the bill does not clarify whether the KJV can be substituted for other word-for-word or thought-for-thought translations.

Given the wording of the Ten Commandments, SB10’s requirements suggest the KJV only.

This seems to be solely about consistency.

The wording in schools would match the 1961 Decalogue monument, which is cemented in the lawn between the Texas State Capitol building and the Texas Supreme Court.

Just as controversial is the bill’s assertion of the Decalogue’s uniqueness.

‘Not Inclusive’: Democrat Senator Sarah Eckhardt

‘Strongly opposed, Democrat Senator Sarah Eckhardt griped that the amendment wasn’t inclusive enough.

SB10, she said, “unconstitutionally establishes the Christian 10 Commandments as the only sanctioned text for mandatory display in Texas public schools.”

The senator then accused her “Republican majority” colleagues of shoving religion down people’s throats, stating that,

“The government was coercing citizens into religious observation.”

“SB 10 rushes the line and does a victory dance in the endzone of coercion,” she added, while acknowledging that most Texans are religious.

Sniping out at those supporting the amendment, Eckhardt then described school kids as government captives being force-fed Christianity.

Not a fan of putting the Ten Commandments in schools, she declared the bill an “evil masquerade,” designed to hide an alleged bigger agenda of merging church with the state.

“Faith that is coerced is not faith at all,” Eckhardt protested.

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Pushes Her Secular Humanist Worldview on Education

The Senator’s anger appears to correlate with her blatant failure at undermining SB10.

Twice, Eckhart tried to make a joke of the bill by inserting the Five Pillars of Islam, the Seven Core Tenets of Hinduism, and the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism, among others, into the law.

Each time, her apparent “poison pills” designed to wreck the amendment were thwarted.

Also connected to Eckhardt’s apparent nausea over the “Christian Ten Commandments” going public is a sizeable helping of self-interest.

The optics further reinforce the senator’s political reputation as a staunch LGBTQ+ “ally.”

Eckhardt’s performance raises questions about secular humanists’ hypocrisy about claims to being content-neutral and theologically unattached.

Nowhere are these hypocritical assertions more evident than in forcing PRIDE pseudo-religion into schools, and LGBTQ+ism onto kids.

Governor Abbott and President Reagan on the 10 Commandments

Speaking about putting the Ten Commandments back in schools, Governor Abbott remarked,

“I will always defend the historical connection between the Ten Commandments and their influence on the history of Texas.”

Notably, Abbott’s actions and comments somewhat replicate Ronald Reagan’s 1984 Address to National Religious Broadcasters, where he asked,

“How much better off might Americans be if all of us tried a little harder to live by the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?”

Reagan continued,

“I’ve been told that since the beginning of civilisation, millions and millions of laws have been written.”

“I’ve even heard someone suggest it was as many as several billion.”

“Yet, taken all together, all those millions and billions of laws have not improved on the Ten Commandments one bit.”

Of significance, Republican-run Texas was second only to Republican-run Florida in its fight for the free world during COVID.

Unlike Senator “wear a mask, save lives” Eckhardt, who appears to have been on board with government coercion, Governor Abbott was on par with Ron DeSantis in leading the free world against medical mandates.

They were the only liberty-loving leaders not to fall in and force their state to comply with the cult of COVID-zero.

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Image of 10 Commandments Monument in Austin, Texas, via Adobe.