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, whichrequires all public school classroomsto display the Ten Commandments. One of several federal lawsuits challenging SB-10failed in Aprilwhen 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 statesthat “a government agency may not substantially burden a person’s free exercise of religion.”

The lawsuit also argues the law violates theParental 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.

Source: CBS News