🚨TEXAS🚨

🛑 Faith leaders in Texas are sounding the alarm — and school boards should listen.

As the March 1 deadline approaches for districts to vote on school prayer policies under Texas Senate Bill 11, more than 160 faith leaders are urging boards to decline adoption — warning that the law creates new problems, not solutions.

Rabbi David Segal of Houston, policy counsel for the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, made clear this effort is deliberate and local:

“We sent it initially just this past week to all of the superintendents of all the districts in Texas… and we are also working on individual outreach to school boards by faith leaders who live in those school districts.”

Notably, Mayes Middleton, the bill’s author, did not respond when asked for comment.

Supporters of SB 11, including David Spiller, insist the policy is “voluntary.” But faith leaders and educators say that framing ignores reality inside public schools.

Rev. Laura Mayo, a Houston pastor, former teacher, and parent of two HISD students, put it plainly:

“Students can already pray. They can already form religious clubs. This is not needed. It does not solve a problem. It creates problems.”

She also warned that so-called “opt-out protections” are unworkable in practice:

“Can you imagine how onerous it’s going to be to try and keep up with who signed a waiver and who hasn’t? That alone should be enough for any school board to say, ‘Hang on a second. Do we need to do this?’”

Some districts are already answering no. Pearland Independent School District has declined to adopt the policy.

This isn’t about banning prayer.
Students already have that right.

This is about whether public schools should be put in charge of organizing religious activity — and whether doing so undermines religious freedom, student privacy, and school operations.

📌 Texas school boards still have a choice.
Faith leaders are urging them to use it.

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