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8th Annual DFW Summit on Religious Freedom & Human Dignity
Thursday October 23, 2025 from 3:00 — 8:00 pm
Southern Methodist University
Moody Hall, Auditorium
6404 Airline Road, Dallas, TX

Summit Objectives

  • Bring together a wide range of religious, community and thought leaders in collaborative support of action oriented religious freedom initiatives in North Texas,
  • Facilitate cordial and supportive real-time, interfaith conversations,
  • Explore and understand the implications of current legal cases,
  • Discuss and understand the impact of religious freedom on DFW business and the economy,
  • Develop institutional and individual action plans to support religious freedom in DFW

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Summary Agenda

A detailed agenda can be viewed here

3:00 Recent Texas Legislation

  • Ten Commandments in Classrooms
  • School Prayer Time, Teacher Prayer Time
  • Released Time Religious Courses

4:00  Who Controls What is Taught?

  • Recent Supreme Court case about parental opt-outs from LGBT curriculum for elementary school

5:00 Separating Church and State

  • Texas School Vouchers and a U.S. Supreme Court case.

6:00 Hors D'ouevres

6:30 Religious Freedom and Human Dignity in Our Schools