A group of roughly two dozen Texas families is asking the Supreme Court to block a state law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms, arguing it breaches the separation of church and state. The case has drawn a public counter-voice in Brittany McFarland, an Austin-area Christian mother whose five-year-old daughter attends a Texas public school, who says she welcomes the display and frames the dispute as being about religious liberty rather than the imposition of religion on pupils.

McFarland told Fox News Digital she was "pleasantly surprised" by the law and rejects claims that the classroom displays amount to state-imposed religion, instead casting the row as a matter of protecting religious freedoms. The legal challenge, understood to involve support from groups such as the ACLU, is now headed to the Supreme Court, which will have to weigh the families' constitutional objections against the state's defence of the law.