Texas Attorney General candidate Aaron Reitz (R) is defending a new state law mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.
After announcing his candidacy for Texas Attorney General, Reitz touted the support of President Donald Trump (R). Reitz now says that he’s “100%” behind the Ten Commandments being displayed in public classrooms, calling them “the bedrock of Western civilizations and the bedrock of our kids’ education system going back hundreds of years.”
During an interview with Matt Gaetz on One America News, Reitz shared his support for the “great law.” For him, the effort is a necessary pushback against what he argues is decades of secular influence in education.
“This law is a great law, and it’s already getting litigated by the secular left groups that want to take religion out of our schools,” Reitz said. “They’ve been running the same plays for the past 60 to 70 years.”
The legislation, passed by Texas lawmakers earlier this year, requires all public K-12 classrooms to prominently display the Ten Commandments. Civil liberties organizations such as the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State have already filed legal challenges, arguing the law violates constitutional protections regarding the separation of church and state.
Reitz said that enforcing such laws requires strong leadership from the attorney general’s office, which he argues that he will provide. “Unless you have an AG who is like what President Trump said about me when he brought me into the Justice Department – ‘a true MAGA attorney and a warrior for the Constitution’ – the laws are just dead letters on the books,” he said.
After the bill was signed into law, the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, the ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation, issued a statement, calling the law "blatantly unconstitutional."
