As another school year approaches, Texas parents should pay close attention to what appears on their children’s classroom walls. Senate Bill 10 requires every Texas public school classroom to display a 16-by-20-inch poster of the Ten Commandments, a foundational text that has influenced American law, history, and culture. The Left has treated this new law as an invitation to protest.
Teachers posting anonymously on Reddit have complained about the requirement and exchanged ideas for what they call “malicious compliance.” Suggestions include displaying the Ten Commandments in rainbow designs resembling LGBT Pride flags or surrounding the required poster with materials promoting other religions.
IllegalPoster.com offers free Ten Commandments posters with LGBT Pride flags, along with instructions for printing and donating them to Texas schools. The website calls Senate Bill 10 unconstitutional, despite the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upholding it in April 2026. The website also provides several posters that it says “actually belong in the classroom,” while promoting the teachings of other religions as appropriate classroom materials
The double standard is clear. The Left condemns the Ten Commandments as dangerous religious promotion that violates the First Amendment, while presenting posters that explain the Five Pillars of Islam and core beliefs of other religions as something that “actually belongs” in the classroom. If religious promotion is truly their concern, why do they reserve their greatest outrage for Christianity?
Christianity played a foundational role in building America. The other religions the Left seems eager to promote did not. Teachers have no reason to discuss them outside a specific academic context, such as a world history class. Teaching certain aspects and histories of other religions in the appropriate setting is education. Using them as political props to undermine the Ten Commandments is activism.
The backlash is even harder to understand when you consider what the Ten Commandments teach: honor your parents, value human life, reject adultery, do not steal, tell the truth, and resist envy. These are basic moral principles, not radical or controversial ideas. The extreme response to a silent poster says far more about its critics than it does about the Ten Commandments.
Parents should determine whether their children’s schools are following Senate Bill 10 or allowing teachers to turn compliance into political protest. Teachers are entrusted with educating children, not using classroom walls for activism. Texas parents must hold their schools accountable.
The views expressed in this opinion article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Dallas Express.
