Praise the lord!
In the article, posted by Houston Public Media, “Three Houston-area moms sue over Ten Commandments in schools. They say it violates Texas’ own laws” parents claim this violates their rights concerning religion as passed by the Texas Legislature in 1999 and 2021. According to the article:
“There’s that commandment saying you shouldn’t have imagery or statues or whatever and no other gods than me,” Nath, whose family adheres to Jainism, Hinduism, Judaism and Quakerism, told Houston Public Media. “That’s telling my son that there’s something wrong with him for celebrating his grandpa’s Hinduism. And it’s not just my son, but for all the other kids who come from such a diversity of religions in my kids’ classes.”
The plaintiffs aren’t just arguing that the bill is unconstitutional—though it certainly is. They are pointing out that it violates Texas state law itself, written by the very same lawmakers pushing the Ten Commandments bill.
Catholics, meanwhile, are taking a noticeably different angle. As Cardinal Salvatore Carrera Bastiste put it in Catholic Monthly:
“We take offense to the posting of the Ten Commandments not over parental religious rights, but because the version being posted isn’t based on the true baseline of Christianity: Catholicism. Catholics created Christianity. Catholics lead Christianity. The Pope—the leader of Christians worldwide—is Catholic. If Texas wants to post the Ten Commandments, it must be the Catholic version.”
Father Dominic Pasesenco offered a slightly more direct critique of Texas legislators: “If you’re going to force the goddamn Ten Commandments down children’s throats, at the very least it should be the goddamn Catholic version.”
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