We’re grateful to see this ruling and grateful to the advocates, families, and legal teams who stood up for church-state separation in public schools.
A federal court has permanently enjoined Arkansas’s classroom Ten Commandments law — a law requiring public schools to display a government-chosen, Protestant version of a sacred religious text in every classroom and library.
That is not neutrality. That is religious favoritism.
Public school children do not all share the same beliefs, and the state has no business using classrooms to impose one religious tradition on everyone else.
Public schools are not Sunday schools, and children should not be subjected to state-imposed religious messaging during the school day.
SEA will continue pushing back on efforts to turn public schools into vehicles for religious favoritism.This is exactly why public education must remain secular.
A strong and important win for church-state separation. 💜
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