After he slid into the vinyl booth across the table from me at the Denny’s in Brenham, John Deans immediately propped up on the table a 16-by-20-inch poster displaying the King James version of the Ten Commandments. The tall, white-haired real estate photographer and firearms instructor was en route to drop 160 posters at a school district office one county over for teachers to hang on the walls of their classrooms.

Deans, a 62-year-old father of three grown children, had only recently started this mission to promote scripture in Texas schools. He got involved after reading about a new state law, known as Senate Bill 10, that requires that Ten Commandments posters be displayed in every public school classroom; schools may use public funds to purchase them, but aren’t required to. If someo

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