What people are saying:

• Secular Education Association: 📌 SEA primarily tracks K–12 public education, but we monitor higher ed when it signals broader church-state trends.

  We’re currently tracking multiple states pushing Ten Commandments laws and similar religion-in-schools mandates.

  If you’re seeing something in your state, send it our way.

• Facebook User: The Ten Commandments were given to the Jewish people as part of a covenant at Sinai — not to Christians, and certainly not to a modern, pluralistic democracy. They were never designed to function as a government mandate in publicly funded classrooms.

  And let’s talk about consistency. The Sabbath command is about Saturday. If we’re going to elevate the Ten Commandments as the moral foundation of society, are we prepared to actually honor what they actually say? Or are we selectively using them as a cultural badge?

  What concerns me most is how this keeps being framed as “history.” History can absolutely be taught — religion has shaped civilizations. But requiring a specific evangelical version of a religious text to be posted on the wall is not neutral. That’s not academic. That’s endorsement.

  Separation of church and state is important for a reason. It protects the church from government control, and it protects citizens from government-imposed religion. Once the state starts deciding which version of Scripture belongs in classrooms, we are no longer talking about religious freedom — we’re talking about state preference.

  This is how control works. Not always through punishment, but through normalization. You repeat it long enough, post it in enough classrooms, and eventually it feels unquestionable.

  If the heart of Christianity is truly what leaders claim it is, why not mandate the Beatitudes? Why not require the Great Commandment — love God and love your neighbor? Why not center mercy, humility, and peacemaking?

  Instead, we keep seeing Scripture used as a political tool — as identity, as power, as a way to signal who belongs and who doesn’t.

  Public universities are not churches. Public schools are not revival tents. Faith was never meant to be forced or legislated into classrooms.

  • Secular Education Association: Facebook User We really appreciate you saying this. You’re putting words to something a lot of people feel but don’t always know how to explain.

    Religion absolutely has a place in history and academic study. But there’s a real difference between teaching about religion and the government elevating a specific religious text in publicly funded classrooms.

    That’s where people start to feel the line shift.

    Public schools and universities are meant to serve students of every background. Once the state starts deciding which religious texts belong on the wall, neutrality starts to erode — and that impacts everyone, including people of faith who don’t share that version.

    These conversations matter. Public education works best when it stays inclusive, neutral, and welcoming to all students.

    We’re grateful for voices willing to speak up about it. We couldn’t agree with you more.

• Facebook User: Because those displays have been shown to positively affect the powerful? Men? Anyone?
• Facebook User: Totally wrong to do so, but at least do it this way
• Facebook User: Separation of church and state is mandated by the constitution.
• Facebook User: Spray paint is cheap.
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• Facebook User: The mandated version is Protestant and of a particular group…. This clearly anti Semitism and anti Catholic…