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Despite new law, Texas school district rejects Arabic, rainbow 'In God We Trust' signs

by ADAM FORGIE | The National Desk
Wednesday, August 31st 2022

WASHINGTON (TND) —

A 2021 Texas law is being put to the test thanks to a donated "In God We Trust" sign written in Arabic, and another decorated in rainbow colors.

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A Texas school board rejects 'In God We Trust' signs in Arabic

August 31, 202210:47 AM ET
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The signs had the right message, as required by law. One stated "In God We Trust" over a rainbow background. Another was in Arabic. But the Carroll school district in North Texas rejected the signs, saying it already has enough for its buildings. ... "Why is more God not good?" came the retort from Srivan Krishna, a local resident who sought to donate the colorful signs at a school board meeting in Southlake, a city in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, earlier this week.

Board president Cameron Bryan did not take up that question, saying only that by accepting an earlier donation at its Aug. 15 meeting, the school district had enough signs for all 11 campuses and its office building.

The signs are part of pushback on a new Texas law

Krishna and others are testing the limits, and the logic, of SB 797, a recently adopted Texas law that requires public schools to display a poster bearing the U.S. motto, "In God We Trust." The law's main requirements are that the posters include the state and U.S. flags, and that schools don't pay for them.

"The statute does not contemplate requiring the district to display more than one copy at a time," Bryan said in a video recording of the meeting. But Krishna disagreed, saying the law doesn't refer to how many posters should be displayed. ... "It doesn't say you have to stop at one," he said. "So that is your decision to stop at one." ... "I think it's kind of un-American to reject posters of our national motto," Krishna told the board members.

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