After protesters solicited donations to distribute posters to schools across the state in Arabic, state Sen. Bryan Hughes sent a letter to the Texas Education Agency clarifying his legislation requiring schools to display signs with the national motto.
of “In God We Trust” posters to public schools from the Christian cellphone company Patriot Mobile.
to the Texas Education Agency. In it, he argued that any donated “In God We Trust” sign must be in English even though that law does not specify what language the signs must use.“In both the United States Code and the Texas Education Code, the motto is set out in quotation marks and is presented in English.
For nearly a year, the “In God We Trust” sign law fell off the public’s radar. Then, a few weeks ago, Patriot Mobile donated signs bearing the motto to every school in the Carroll Independent School District. The school board of the affluent, largely white Dallas-Fort Worth suburb accepted the posters from the conservative company during a meeting on Aug. 16.
“The First Amendment was never meant to completely exclude references to God or religious practices from government settings. That’s why public meetings often begin with prayer, elected officials frequently take their oath of office on a holy text, public employees wear visible signs of their faith on the job, and why God is mentioned in the Pledge of Allegiance, on every U.S. coin and dollar, and on the walls of various public buildings and monuments,” White said in a statement to the Tribune.
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