by Michael Robinson | Uvalde Hesperian
02-04-26
On Monday, February 2nd, Uvalde CISD Superintendent Ashley Chohlis was presented with 300 framed copies of the 10 Commandments by Emma Trimble, the Founder and President of Peace Ministries in the library at Legacy Elementary Schools. The Ten Commandments can be found in Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 4: 61-12 in the Bible.
According to Trimble. Peace Ministries along with several donors, paid for the printing and framing of 300 Ten Commandment Posters which were donated to the district.
Uvalde CISD Trustee Erika Ayala Munoz joined Superintendent Chohlis at the presentation along with Uvalde CISD Chief of Communications & Human Capital Anne Marie Espinoza and Communications Manager Yvette P. Gomez and Legacy Elementary Principal Isidro Escamilla.
Trimble was accompanied by approximately a dozen supporters including Pastor Gilbert Limones of Casa El Shaddai.
According to Trimble, the framed prints are replicas of the red-granite monument on display at the Texas State Capitol in Austin.
Boxes containing the framed prints were opened and a large group photograph was taken followed by remarks by Superintendent Chohlis, and by Peace Ministries President Emma Trimble followed by prayers.
According to information learned at the event, the posters will be distributed and placed in all district classrooms by March 2026.
Texas Senate Bill 10 (S.B. 10) was passed by the Texas Legislature on May 28, 2025, along party lines and was signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott on June 21, 2025. According to Wikipedia and Senate Bill 10 House Committee Report Version Bill Text. S.B. 10 , the law requires public schools to display the Ten Commandments anywhere clearly visible. It also requires the display to be framed or a poster and include the exact text of the Ten Commandments provided in the law without alternatives. It must also be at least 16 inches (41 cm) wide and 20 inches (51 cm) tall. The law went into effect September 1st, 2025.
According to the Torah.com, it states: ‘The bill does not allow for just any version of the Decalogue but states that the text “must read” according to a particular version, namely the version developed in the early 1950s by the Fraternal Order of Eagles (FOE),[1] a not-for-profit group founded in 1898 that remains active today. On their website, they describe their mission as “uniting fraternally in the spirit of liberty, truth, justice, and equality, to make human life more desirable by lessening its ills and promoting peace, prosperity, gladness and hope.”
The Composition of the Text
Jenna Weissman Joselit, who has studied this subject most extensively, observes:
In an attempt to reconcile the three variant readings, to arrive at a version that would sit well with Protestants and Catholics, as well as with the Jews, the ancient biblical injunctions had been “rearranged” by a trio of latter-day Americans from the nation’s heartland,” the Torah.com article states.
According to an Associated Press article, Following the Texas Senate Bill 10 being signed into law, a group of families filed a temporary legal injunction that was approved by Texas District Court Judge Fred Biery which blocked the Ten Commandment Posters from being placed within certain districts in located in Houston and Austin. Uvalde CISD was not included in the injunction.
