🚨INDIANA update on HB 1086 🚨

We’re hearing that lawmakers may try to “fix” HB 1086 by amending it to include the U.S. Constitution and other so-called “historical documents,” instead of only the Ten Commandments.

Let’s be clear about what this is: a rebrand, not a solution.

Tacking the Constitution onto a bill that was designed to mandate the display of the Ten Commandments doesn’t change the underlying problem. The Ten Commandments are a religious text, not a neutral historical document appropriate for permanent display in public school classrooms. Adding secular documents as cover does not magically make a religious mandate constitutional.

👀Notably, similar language was just removed from SB 88 — which makes it all the more telling that it may now be recycled into HB 1086. This isn’t about good history instruction. It’s about forcing religion into public schools and hoping cosmetic changes will make it pass legal scrutiny.

🛑Indiana parents and educators should continue to oppose HB 1086 in any form. Public schools must remain religiously neutral and serve all students — not elevate one faith tradition under the guise of history.

📞 Keep calling.
🗣️ Keep showing up.
📚 Keep reminding lawmakers: the Constitution protects freedom of religion by preventing government-imposed religion — especially in schools.

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