As roughly two dozen Texas families fight to keep the Ten Commandments off public school walls, one Austin-area mom is making no apologies for wanting them in her kindergartner's classroom.Brittany McFarland, a Christian mother whose 5-year-old daughter attends public school in Texas, told Fox News Digital she was "pleasantly surprised" by the new classroom displays and said the fierce backlash over them reflects a much bigger battle over faith, values and religious liberty in America's public schools."I feel like our country, we've been kind of forced to erase religion and discussion of religion in schools in general," McFarland said."Almost to the point where the topic is taboo, and our children are afraid and uncomfortable to mention their faith or talk anything about it."McFarland said she and her husband had weighed whether public school was still the right choice for their daughter, but said learning about the Ten Commandments law gave her a "sense of hope" about the direction of public education.TEXAS DEM JAMES TALARICO RIPS 'UN-CHRISTIAN' COURT DECISION ON WHAT'S ALLOWED IN CLASSROOMSAnna Dollar (2nd L) of Boone, NC, and Deanna Gosnell (R) of Avery, North Carolina, hold posters during a rally in front of the U.S.
Supreme Court to support the Ten Commandments March 2, 2005, in Washington, DC.The Supreme Court heard two cases on whether Ten Commandments monuments should be displayed on government properties.
(Alex Wong/Getty Images) "It gave me a renewed sense of hope in our school systems," she said.The fight is straightforward.Texas requires public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms, and roughly two dozen families want the Supreme Court to block the law.The families, represented by groups including the ACLU, argue the state is crossing a constitutional line by putting a religious text in public school classrooms.
They say decisions about a child's religious upbringing should be left to parents and faith communities, not the government, ...