Comal ISD is among the school districts named in the lawsuit.
COMAL COUNTY, Texas — A group of Texas families filed a new lawsuit in federal court on Monday to stop their public school districts from displaying the Ten Commandments in classrooms pursuant to Texas law SB 10.
The group included 15 multi-faith and nonreligious families.
The lawsuit is in response to school districts that have or are about to display Ten Commandments posters, despite a federal court’s recent ruling that S.B. 10 is a clear violation of students’ and families’ religious freedom and the separation of church and state.
The plaintiffs in Cribbs Ringer v. Comal Independent School District say they also plan to file a motion for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction, in which they ask the court to require the school districts remove any Ten Commandments displays they have posted and also to refrain from hanging any new displays until the litigation has ended.
In addition to Comal ISD, the other districts named are: Georgetown ISD, Conroe ISD, Flour Bluff ISD, Fort Worth ISD, Arlington ISD, McKinney ISD, Frisco ISD, Northwest ISD, Azle ISD, Rockwall ISD, Lovejoy ISD, Mansfield ISD, and McAllen ISD.
The complaint was filed in a San Antonio federal court and points to the court’s recent decision in Rabbi Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District, which held that S.B. 10’s provisions requiring the display of a Protestant version of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom are “plainly unconstitutional” under the First Amendment.
KENS 5 reached out to Comal ISD and we are waiting for their response.
You can read the entire lawsuit here.