O’DONNELL, Texas – Parents, students, teachers and administrators flooded an O’Donnell Independent School District board meeting Tuesday to demand board members keep a Ten Commandments mural targeted by an anti-Christian group.

Last week the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation penned a letter to superintendent Cathy Amonett demanding that the district remove a Ten Commandments mural that was recently painted in a new section of O’Donnell High School.

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FFRF contends it received an anonymous complaint about the mural, which also contains a Bible verse, and threatened to sue the school district if the display was not removed immediately. School officials initially covered the mural with black paper, but students ripped it down, so they covered it temporarily with an American flag.

Since, students, parents, faculty and others have spoken out against the mural’s removal both in the media and online, and many students have plastered the school with Post-it notes containing Bible verses and their thoughts about the ordeal.

District officials hosted a public forum on the issue Tuesday, and more than 100 locals the meeting, virtually all in favor of keeping the display as is, Lubbock Online reports.

“My request is to honorably and respectfully fight to protect our religious freedoms and leave the Commandments on the wall,” parent Sarah Cook told board members. “The most important fight for everyone in this room is much bigger than anything on the wall. May this community live the Ten Commandments … While I do want the Commandments to stay on the wall, our faith is not dependent on a wall painting.”

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“I’m so proud that this community is fighting for it,” student Sabrina Pedroza said. “We should be proud for making it as big as we did. We have to fight together, and we have to stay strong.”

“I can tell you, everybody in this whole entire room believe in these Ten Commandments,” she told KCBD.

Javier Castaneda and Scott Bailey, hosts of 87.7 FM’s “The Fountain” show, passed out nearly 100 t-shirts to students and others at the meeting to rally in favor of keeping the Commandments.

The front of the shirts read: “You can have the walls, He’s in our hearts,” Castaneda said.

“And on the back there’s the Ten Commandments.”

“It’s not about the wall, it’s about you and your walk,” Bailey told KCBD. “It’s about what you’re doing.”

Clay Childress, a 1980 alum of O’Donnell High School, told the board that he believes the current situation is a direct result of the 1963 Supreme Court ruling that prohibited school officials from leading students in prayer, Lubbock Online reports.

“Ever since that ruling, our schools have denigrated,” he said. “Our population has gone basically in the toilet … It’s all because of a very, very small minority that says ‘This offends me.’ I want you to know if those are taken down, I’ll be offended.”

Others in attendance advocated for calling FFRF’s bluff, and keeping the Commandments in place until the district is served with a lawsuit and then re-examine the situation at that time.

“My thought is, let’s keep it up there will we get pushed up to a lawsuit,” Lois Sherrill said. “If it gets to a lawsuit, I don’t know if we’d have the money to fight it or not.”

FFRF attorney Sam Grover, meanwhile, is attempting to convince local media outlets that the organization is the good guy for sticking up for an anonymous complainant.

“Everyone’s not happy with it, first of all, because someone locally contacted us,” he said. “Our constitutional rights in this country are not subject to majority rule. The Constitution protects from the tyranny of majority rule.”

District officials did not make any formal decisions at the meeting, and Amonett told Lubbock Online that they’re “still consulting with legal counsel.”