Everyone knows the slogan “Don’t Mess With Texas.” A Texas public school district learned the hard way that the law has another slogan: “Don’t Mess With God.”

Recently, a federal court told the Mathis Independent School District in South Texas that it couldn’t run roughshod over the religious and civil rights of two high school boys, Cesar and Diego Gonzales, who were simply trying to live by their faith. Similar to Samson in the Bible, the boys have kept a promise to God since birth to keep a strand of their hair uncut.