Louisiana Spites Left: New Law REQUIRES Commandments in Classroom

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Governor Landry couldn’t wait to sign off on it. “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.”
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Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed a controversial law requiring a display of the Ten Commandments in every school classroom. Now, we’ll see if it sticks. Liberal activists have already poured out of the woodwork to challenge it’s legality. Whether you believe the two stone tablets carried down Mount Sinai by Moses were laser engraved by God himself or they contained the ravings of a half-starved lunatic, it doesn’t really matter. The simple, common sense principles form the basis of our entire legal system because they work. Exposing children to good things in the classroom should be as welcome to progressives as sex-toy show and tell or drag queen story hours. The ACLU and their ilk believe otherwise.

Ten Commandments on display

Every public school in Louisiana will now be forced to display the Ten Commandments along with the pride flags and other liberal indoctrination symbols. House Bill 71 was officially signed into law on June 19 requiring “a poster-size display.

The text specifies “large, easily readable font.” If the facility gets a single dime from state funding they have to hang the poster, from “kindergarten through the university level.

Legislators hammered out the specific version of wording for each of the bullet points and included that in the law to take any confusion over versions out of the equation. It also “outlines that the text of the Ten Commandments must be the central focus of the poster or framed document.

Governor Landry couldn’t wait to sign off on it. “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.

Progressives hear those words and it’s like splashing a vampire with holy water. The liberal left is quick to throw the establishment clause card on the table. They love that one because it says Congress can “make no law respecting an establishment of religion.

Hanging the Ten Commandments doesn’t establish any particular religion because they also form the basis of laws around the planet. They’re also good advice at a totally generic level.

The simple, common sense principles form the basis of our entire legal system because they work.

Unconstitutional religious coercion

The lawsuits are already flying like snowflakes in a blizzard. 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 all teamed up for the battle. They claim “that the law violates longstanding Supreme Court precedent and the First Amendment.

They’re also convinced it will inflict “unconstitutional religious coercion of students.” They don’t like schools advising kids not to kill anyone, commit adultery or steal. The Commandments basically forbid everything Democrats do for fun.

They vented their tantrum in a joint statement declaring that 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.” They don’t explain how a poster on the wall violates that. The activists also insist that “politicians have no business imposing their preferred religious doctrine on students and families in public schools.

They aren’t imposing anything but a history lesson. History terrifies the left. They would prefer you accept their edited and sanitized versions of events. The Ten Commandments are way to repressive, for a free and enlightened progressive culture. One where stealing laundry soap is considered “reparations” for past injustice.

Supporters just shrug and offer to meet them in court. Back in 2022, SCOTUS decided that there are times when controversial speech like this are protected by the First Amendment. In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the court clarified “that a government entity does not necessarily violate the establishment clause by permitting religious expression in public.

The last thing liberal educators want is a “moral code” in the classroom. The Ten Commandments are such a well established code of proper behavior that they stand on their own. It will be interesting to see what the final decision turns out to be after all the dust settles.

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