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奥黛丽·纳特和埃米莉·罗斯教导年幼子女的课程里，并不包含《圣经》中记载的十条宗教戒律。
“我的孩子还小，他们还没有理解谋杀、通奸和奴役这些概念，”埃米莉·罗斯在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时说道。
德克萨斯州议会去年通过了第10号参议院法案，要求所有公立学校教室都悬挂十诫。今年4月，一起挑战该法案的联邦诉讼被第五巡回上诉法院驳回，法案得以生效。不过，该案仍可上诉至最高法院。
纳特、罗斯以及另一名休斯顿地区的母亲桑贾姆·索哈尔上周在哈里斯县地区法院提起州级诉讼，指控第10号参议院法案违反了1999年《德克萨斯州宗教自由恢复法》。该法案规定“政府机构不得实质性限制个人的宗教自由实践”。
这起诉讼还指出，该法案违反了2025年11月经德克萨斯州选民通过、由共和党人倡导的《父母权利宪法修正案》。
该修正案规定，父母拥有“照管、监护和管控子女的基本权利”，“包括就子女的成长做出决策的权利”。
“这是将某一宗教的信仰当作墙上的规则展示出来，”纳特在谈及第10号参议院法案时说道，“我认为这会暗示那些信仰不同的孩子在学校没有做正确的事。”
罗斯补充道：“如果能结合历史背景并与其他宗教一同讲授，宗教在学校中可以有一席之地……我认为如果德克萨斯州任由基督教民族主义者决定我们孩子教室墙上该挂什么，那么德克萨斯州的母亲们会站出来反对。”
该法案的支持者包括德克萨斯州总检察长肯·帕克斯顿，他们认为《圣经》文本是美国遗产和历史的重要组成部分，应当被教授。
“父母权利是基本权利，但这并不意味着某个家庭可以据此改写德克萨斯州所有孩子在公立学校学到的内容，”非营利基督教倡导组织“德克萨斯价值观”的政策主任乔纳森·科维说道。该组织是为学校提供十诫海报的机构之一。
德克萨斯州是目前要求学校悬挂十诫的四个州之一，另外三个是路易斯安那州、阿拉巴马州和阿肯色州。另有近十二个州正在审议类似法案，包括西弗吉尼亚州、俄克拉荷马州、犹他州、密西西比州、南卡罗来纳州、佐治亚州、蒙大拿州、密苏里州、北达科他州、南达科他州和印第安纳州。
罗斯认为这项立法为学校中更多的宗教教学打开了大门。
“我觉得这扇门已经大开了，”罗斯说道，“我觉得德克萨斯州现在正成为一个试验场，我不想让我的孩子成为试验品。”
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系德克萨斯州总检察长办公室和德克萨斯州教育委员会，就这起诉讼置评。帕克斯顿和德克萨斯州教育委员会专员迈克·莫拉斯均被列为诉讼被告。
不过，当德克萨斯州的学生下周返校时，部分教室仍不会悬挂十诫。阿灵顿独立学区在发给哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的一份声明中表示，该学区正等待联邦法院系统解决去年9月由15个家庭组成的团体提起的另一桩针对该法案的联邦诉讼。
这些家庭的律师告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，他们计划在未来几周内向最高法院请愿。
“学区领导层认为，联邦法院必须最终解决围绕第10号参议院法案的州法律与联邦先例之间的冲突，”阿灵顿独立学区在声明中说道，“虽然阿灵顿独立学区已经收到了捐赠的十诫海报，但在诉讼仍处于任何形式的待决状态期间，学校依法仍不得悬挂这些海报。”
3 mothers sue to block Texas law requiring Ten Commandments in public schools
2026-08-07 20:04:00-0400 / CBS News
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Updated on: August 7, 2026 / 8:09 PM EDT / CBS News
The lessons Audrey Nath and Emily Roth are teaching their young children don’t include 10 religious laws that are taught in the Bible.
“My kids are young and they don’t have the concept of murder … and adultery and servitude,” Emily Roth told CBS News.
The Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 10 last year, which requires all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments. One of several federal lawsuits challenging SB-10 failed in April when the law was upheld by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. That case, however, could still be appealed to the Supreme Court.
Nath, Roth and a third Houston area mother, Sanjam Sohal, filed a state lawsuit last week in Harris County District Court alleging SB-10 violates the 1999 Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which states that “a government agency may not substantially burden a person’s free exercise of religion.”
The lawsuit also argues the law violates the Parental Rights constitutional amendment, which was championed by conservatives and passed by Texas voters in November 2025.
That amendment states that parents have the “fundamental right to exercise care, custody, and control” of their children, “including the right to make decisions concerning the child ‘s upbringing.”
“This is presenting the beliefs of one religion as rules on the wall,” Nath said of SB-10. “And I think that implies that any kids that believe something different aren’t following the right thing at school.”
Added Roth: “There can be a place for religion in school, if it’s being taught in an historical context with other religions … I feel like if the state of Texas is going to let Christian nationalists dictate what goes on our kids’ walls, they’re going to hear from Texas moms.”
Supporters of the law, including Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, argue that Biblical texts are an important part of the country’s heritage and history and should be taught.
“Parental rights are fundamental, but they’re not a license for one family to rewrite that for every child in Texas and what they learn in public schools,” said Jonathan Covey, director of policy for the nonprofit Christian advocacy group Texas Values, one of the organizations that supplies schools with posters of the Ten Commandments.
Texas is one of four states that currently require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in schools, along with Louisiana, Alabama and Arkansas. Nearly a dozen other states are considering similar legislation, including West Virginia, Oklahoma, Utah, Mississippi, South Carolina, Georgia, Montana, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and Indiana.
Roth said she sees this legislation as opening a door to more religious instruction in schools.
“I feel like the door is wide open,” Roth said. “I feel like Texas is being a test case right now, and I don’t want my kids to be the guinea pigs.”
CBS News has reached out to the Texas Office of the Attorney General and the Texas Education Agency for comment on the lawsuit. Both Paxton and Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath are named in the lawsuit.
When children in Texas return to school next week, some classrooms still won’t be displaying the Ten Commandments, however. The Arlington Independent School District said in a statement provided to CBS News that it is waiting for the federal court system to resolve a separate federal lawsuit that was filed against the law back in September by a group of 15 families.
Attorneys for those families told CBS News they plan to petition the Supreme Court in the next few weeks.
“District leadership maintains that federal courts must ultimately resolve the conflict between state law and federal precedent surrounding S.B. 10,” the Arlington ISD said in a statement. “While Arlington ISD has received donated copies of the Ten Commandments, schools remain legally prohibited from displaying them while the litigation remains pending in any form.”