California Department of Education Sued for Curriculum That Has Students Praying to Aztec Gods thomasmoresociety.org

The California Department of Education passed a curriculum that has students praying to Aztec gods, according to a lawsuit filed September 3, 2021, by the Thomas More Society. The prayers are being elicited under the guise of an ethnic studies curriculum. The complaint, filed in California Superior Court on behalf the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation and individual taxpayers and parents of school children, follows an unanswered demand letter sent to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. The letter asked the state’s top educational authority to withdraw the Aztec prayer from the curriculum.

“The Aztecs regularly performed gruesome and horrific acts for the sole purpose of pacifying and appeasing the very beings that the prayers from the curriculum invoke,” explained Paul Jonna, partner at LiMandri & Jonna LLP and Thomas More Society Special Counsel. “The human sacrifice, cutting out of human hearts, flaying of victims and wearing their skin, are a matter of historical record, along with sacrifices of war prisoners, and other repulsive acts and ceremonies the Aztecs conducted to honor their deities. Any form of prayer and glorification of these bloodthirsty beings in whose name horrible atrocities were performed is repulsive to any reasonably informed observer.”…

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