Stop the One-Religion Reading Mandate in Texas Public Schools

More than five million Texas public school students come from families of every religious background — and all of them deserve to feel welcome in a public school.

A letter to your state legislators. Facts checked June 26, 2026.

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Subject Our public schools belong to every family — oppose the mandatory Bible reading list

Texas public schools belong to every child — Jewish kids, Muslim kids, Hindu kids, kids from families with no religious tradition at all. When the State Board of Education forces a mandatory reading list built entirely around Christian scripture and excludes every other faith, that's not education. That's the government picking one religion and putting it in front of five million children. Families — not the state — get to make religious decisions for their kids. That's been true in Texas forever, and it should stay true.

This reading list isn't teaching about religion the way a history or literature class might. It's a curated set of Bible passages and Christian picture books made mandatory across every grade, K through 12, with nothing from any other tradition included. No Torah. No Quran. No Buddhist teachings. Nothing. That's not balance — it's government endorsement of one faith. Beyond the principle, this is a lawsuit waiting to happen, and Texas taxpayers will be the ones footing the bill when it does.

I'm asking you to publicly oppose this mandatory reading list and push back on your colleagues at the State Board of Education before it becomes policy that harms every family in our state who doesn't fit one specific religious mold.

Please stand up for every Texas family and publicly oppose this one-religion mandatory reading mandate.

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I'm calling about the State Board of Education's mandatory reading list that includes Bible passages and Christian picture books across all grades, while leaving out every other religion. I think that's wrong, and I want my representative to say so too.
This isn't about whether the Bible has literary value — it's about the government telling five million kids that one religion gets a seat in the classroom and everyone else doesn't. That's not fair to families like mine.
When the state does something this legally shaky, it's Texas taxpayers who pay for the court fights. I'd rather that money go to teachers and schools.
I'm asking my representative to publicly oppose this mandatory reading list and stand up for every family in Texas — not just Christian ones. This matters to me and I vote.

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