Louisiana public schools are now required to display the Ten Commandments in
all classrooms, after Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed the requirement
into law Wednesday.

House Bill 71, approved by state lawmakers last month, mandates that a
poster-size display of the Ten Commandments with “large, easily readable
font” be in every classroom at schools that receive state funding, from
kindergarten through the university level.

The legislation specifies the exact language that must be printed on the
classroom displays and outlines that the text of the Ten Commandments must
be the central focus of the poster or framed document.

Before signing the bill, Landry called it “one of (his) favorites.”

“If you want to respect the rule of law, you gotta start from the original
law given which was Moses. … He got his commandments from God,” Landry said.

Opponents of the bill have argued that a state requiring a religious text in
all classrooms would violate the establishment clause of the US
Constitution, which says that Congress can “make no law respecting an
establishment of religion.”

Civil liberties groups swiftly vowed to challenge the law – which makes
Louisiana the first in the nation to require the Ten Commandments be
displayed in every classroom that receives state funding – in court.

The American Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union of
Louisiana, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the
Freedom from Religion Foundation said that the law violates longstanding
Supreme Court precedent and the First Amendment and would result in
“unconstitutional religious coercion of students.”

“The First Amendment promises that we all get to decide for ourselves what
religious beliefs, if any, to hold and practice, without pressure from the
government. Politicians have no business imposing their preferred religious
doctrine on students and families in public schools,” the groups said in a
joint statement.

Supporters of the law, in defending the measure, have leaned on the 2022 US
Supreme Court decision in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, which gave a
high school football coach his job back after he was disciplined over a
controversy involving prayer on the field. The Supreme Court ruled that the
coach’s prayers amounted to private speech, protected by the First
Amendment, and could not be restricted by the school district.

The decision lowered the bar between church and state in an opinion that
legal experts predicted would allow more religious expression in public
spaces. At the time, the court clarified that a government entity does not
necessarily violate the establishment clause by permitting religious
expression in public.

Louisiana state Rep. Dodie Horton, the Republican author of the bill, said
at the bill signing that “it’s like hope is in the air everywhere.” Horton
has dismissed concerns from Democratic opponents of the measure, saying the
Ten Commandments are rooted in legal history and her bill would place a
“moral code” in the classroom.

This story has been updated with additional details.

There needs to be an 11th and 12th commandment.

11 - Males cannot be female, ever.

12 - Homosexuals and their supporters will be placed on a deserted island in
the Pacific for all eternity.

On 6/19/2024 7:38 PM, Michael Turdsmell wrote:
> Louisiana public schools are now required to display the Ten Commandments in
> all classrooms, after Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed the requirement
> into law Wednesday.
>
> House Bill 71, approved by state lawmakers last month, mandates that a
> poster-size display of the Ten Commandments with “large, easily readable
> font” be in every classroom at schools that receive state funding, from
> kindergarten through the university level.
>

>
> Louisiana state Rep. Dodie Horton, the Republican author of the bill, said
> at the bill signing that “it’s like hope is in the air everywhere.” Horton
> has dismissed concerns from Democratic opponents of the measure, saying the
> Ten Commandments are rooted in legal history and her bill would place a
> “moral code” in the classroom.
>
> This story has been updated with additional details.
>
> There needs to be an 11th and 12th commandment.
>
> 11 - Males cannot be female, ever.
>
> 12 - Homosexuals and their supporters will be placed on a deserted island in
> the Pacific for all eternity.
>

This will be decided by the politicians in robes, aka, Supreme Court.
If this holds up, next step will be to require people to go to church on
Sunday.

>
>Louisiana public schools are now required to display the Ten Commandments
>in all classrooms, after Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed the
>requirement into law Wednesday.

They should be tattooing crucifixes on the Christian student's foreheads to
make the Christian ones easier to identify when the time comes for their
special treatment.

God will hit them with hurricanes and floods for this like he's recently done
to Florida and Texass.