Dear John, 

Jonathan Saenz here, President and attorney for Texas Values. I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to follow up on the email we sent this morning to see if you had a chance to review it. Why? Because the ACLU and others are trying to tear down 10 Commandments displays in Texas!! Please find it below and consider making a donation if you haven't already, and please forward it to your friends and family.

***********************************************************************************Our Texas Ten Commandments law is under heavy attack by the ACLU and their New York lawyers, and we need your help right now!! You may recall that earlier this year our Texas Values team led the effort to pass a new law that makes it clear that 10 Commandments posters are to be hung in every K-12 public school classroom in Texas!

For many years, Texas Values has been the leader in Texas for making sure our students learn about the connection of the 10 Commandments to the Founding and History of America, and a major source for our founding laws and policies, including documents drafted by our Founding Fathers. 

Senator Phil King

We have worked successfully on these issues for over 10 years (details here); in the Texas Capitol, at State Board of Education meetings and in local school districts in Texas. For more information about our work on this issue, please go to TenCommandmentsTexas.com.

But, anti-Christian groups want you to believe that our Founding Fathers were not Christian, and now they want to force students to believe that the 10 Commandments has never had an impact or place in American history. However, the U. S. Supreme Court has symbols of the 10 Commandments on the outside and inside of their building. Still, there’s an ongoing effort to convince us that this historical symbol has no place in American society or Texas classrooms. Please support our work now with a tax-deductible donation at TxValues.org/Give

As a reminder, in the successful Supreme Court case in 2005 about our Texas 10 Commandments monument on the Texas Capitol grounds, the Supreme Court said: “[o]ur opinions, like our building, have recognized the role the Decalogue plays in America’s heritage…The Executive and Legislative Branches have also acknowledged the historical role of the Ten Commandments…These displays and recognition's of the Ten Commandments bespeak the rich American tradition of religious acknowledgments.”

But still, our opposition wants to keep making us fight these same battles, hoping we will get tired and just give up. But we will NEVER GIVE UP! We will never just hand over our American Heritage, we will never stop defending the 10 Commandments and other significant symbols and words like “In God We Trust” or “God Bless Texas” just because the ACLU and others threaten us with lawsuits! 

The Texas 10 Commandments law was passed this year and Gov. Abbott signed the law into effect in June of this year. But now, two lawsuits have been filed against this new religious freedom law and two different unelected liberal federal court judges have ruled against the law. But, these lawsuits only apply to 25 of the 1,200 school districts in Texas. Both of these judges have a history of being hostile to Biblical values, so we are confident these court rulings will be overturned on appeal soon. In fact, our team will be at the federal appeals court hearing on this case on January 20, 2026. 

We know that GOVERNMENT BELONGS TO THOSE WHO SHOW UP, so we showed up at the court hearing and we filed a friend of the court legal brief (“amicus brief”) stating our support of the Texas law and explaining why the law is constitutional. Students are not required to look at, read or believe the 10 Commandments list on the poster in the classroom. The only requirement is that the poster be displayed in the classroom and not covered up or be hidden from sight. 

Thankfully, our Texas Attorney General’s Office is also pushing back and defending our Texas law, and also suing school districts who are not following the law (like Leander, Round Rock and Galveston ISD). 

So this means everyone who is in the 1,175 Texas school districts not impacted by these weak court orders, needs to show huge support to their local school district and help us make sure these 1175 school districts in Texas know they have every right to post up the 10 Commandments posters in their classrooms! For more information on how you can help your school district, please visit our partner website restoreamericanschools.org. Please, please hear us that this is the most important issue we are working on right now, and that your donation can absolutely help us stand up to the ACLU and protect our Texas 10 Commandments law, by making a tax-deductible donation now at txvalues.org/give.

The following school districts (25 of 1,200) are the only ones that have been ordered by a judge to tear down the 10 Commandments posters from the walls of Texas classrooms:

Comal Independent School District; Georgetown Independent School District; Conroe Independent School District; Flour Bluff Independent School District; Fort Worth Independent School District; Arlington Independent School District; McKinney Independent School District; Frisco Independent School District; Northwest Independent School District; Azle Independent School District; Rockwall Independent School District; Lovejoy Independent School District; Mansfield Independent School District; and McAllen Independent School District, Alamo Heights Independent School District, North East Independent School District, Lackland Independent School District, Austin Independent School District, Northside Independent School District, Lake Travis Independent School District, Dripping Springs Independent School District, Houston Independent School District, Fort Bend Independent School District, Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District, and Plano Independent School District.)

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