MEDIA RECAP:

On June 20, 2025, a three‑judge panel of the conservative‑leaning 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled Louisiana’s House Bill 71—which required the Ten Commandments posters in every public school classroom and college—unconstitutional under the Establishment Clause. 

“This is a resounding victory for the separation of church and state and public education,” said Heather L. Weaver, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union. “With today’s ruling, the Fifth Circuit has held Louisiana accountable to a core constitutional promise: Public schools are not Sunday schools, and they must welcome all students, regardless of faith.”

Citing the 1980 Supreme Court precedent Stone v. Graham (which struck down similar mandates) and evidence that lawmakers’ motivations were religious, the court declared the law “plainly unconstitutional”.  Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has vowed to ask for a rehearing and likely take the case up to the U.S. Supreme Court.

This ruling makes one thing crystal clear: public schools view themselves as purveyors of truth—not the church. If that sounds like a religious devotion to a belief system that claims to be the source of all wisdom… well, you’re not wrong.

As Christians, we know there is no such thing as neutrality. There is no such thing as a “secular” school. There is either a school that worships God as Creator, or a school that worships man as ooze-turned-sentient-and-self-determinative.

That is, there is no choice to leave religion out of schools. There is only a choice of which religion will be in the school: some version of humanism…or Christianity. They pretend to remove religion, but in the very act of doing so, they’re enforcing the truth-claims of their own belief system.

That’s why we advocate for homeschooling. Because even as the religion of secular humanism has left millions of young people not only uneducated, but truly, deeply, and existentially miserable… the system still insists on asserting its false gospel of self over the truth claims of Christ.

We hope more parents see this for what it is—and pull their kids out. Home is not just safer. It’s the only place left to give children an education rooted in truth.