Every year we see efforts by government or hostile groups that participate in a “war on Christmas” to limit or ban references to Christmas in public schools and on public property. Many stories and questions regarding such restrictions reach the desk of Texas Values team members during the Christmas season.

Texas Values has announced the launch of its annual “Merry Christmas Texas Project,” a statewide effort to educate and protect the acknowledgment of Christmas in public schools. The Merry Christmas Texas Law (HB308) authored by State Representative Dwayne Bohac, which passed with bipartisan support in the Texas Legislature and was signed into law in 2013, protects the religious liberty of children, parents, teachers, and school staff to acknowledge Christmas on school grounds without fear of censorship, persecution or litigation. The Texas Values legal and policy team helped draft this law.

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Since the passage of the Merry Christmas Law, Texas Values has helped defeat efforts to attack Christmas, including:

• An attempt in Austin ISD to ban high-school students from singing Christmas carols.

• Attempts in Frisco ISD to ban any “reference to Christmas” or “red/green Christmas trees” in elementary schools.

• Attempts by various Texas school districts filing court cases over Christmas expressions, including the famous “Candy Cane Case” from Plano ISD.

• Successfully defending the "Charlie Brown Christmas Poster" in court on behalf of Killeen ISD public school employee.

The Texas Legislature also passed a law (SB 581) in 2021 that prohibits Home Owners Associations (HOAs) from making rules that restrict homeowners from having religious displays on their own property.