BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday.
The GOP-drafted legislation mandates that a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” be required in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities. Although the bill did not receive final approval from Landry, the time for gubernatorial action — to sign or veto the bill — has lapsed.
Opponents question the law’s constitutionality, warning that lawsuits are likely to follow. Proponents say the purpose of the measure is not solely religious, but that it has historical significance. In the law’s language, the Ten Commandments are described as “foundational documents of our state and national government.”
The displays, which will be paired with a four-paragraph “context statement” describing how the Ten Commandments “were a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries,” must be in place in classrooms by the start of 2025.
The posters would be paid for through donations. State funds will not be used to implement the mandate, based on language in the legislation.
The law also “authorizes” — but does not require — the display of the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence and the Northwest Ordinance in K-12 public schools.
Similar bills requiring the Ten Commandments be displayed in classrooms have been proposed in other states including Texas, Oklahoma and Utah. However, with threats of legal battles over the constitutionality of such measures, no state besides Louisiana has had success in making the bills law.
Legal battles over the display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms are not new.
In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a similar Kentucky law was unconstitutional and violated the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution, which says Congress can “make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” The high court found that the law had no secular purpose but rather served a plainly religious purpose.
Louisiana’s controversial law, in a state ensconced in the Bible Belt, comes during a new era of conservative leadership in the state under Landry, who replaced two-term Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards in January.
The GOP also has a two-thirds supermajority in the Legislature, and Republicans hold every statewide elected position, paving the way for lawmakers to push through a conservative agenda during the legislative session that concluded earlier this month.
There was also a shitton of killing in the source so USA naturally followed the longer text about murdering and enslaving everyone living on a land and resources they wants, instead of some random oneliner.
that's old testament even. under new testament, unless you are selling your earthly possesions to help the poor, you are not exactly following the christ. Poor fisherman in palestine had more faith in christ than all those theocrats. Also charging interest is a sin, good luck with that in usa
I've long maintained that there might be like 6 actual Christians in the entire US. The vast majority of the rest of them seem to be Satanists but not in the fun/cool way
This is blatantly unconstitutional,not that that actually has any real meaning, but either way I can’t wait to troll some “small c conservatives” with this.
Even with the conservative tilt of the court, there’s no way this survives a legal challenge. It just opens up too many cans of worms to allow any religion’s holy text to be displayed on public. Cultural conservatives balk at the idea of opening that up to Jews, Muslims, etc., and the true powers that be see the religious stuff as bread and circuses for the rubes.
If they're gonna put the Ten Commandments in schools, they also have to include all those rules from the same books about which colour bugs you're allowed to eat and how to properly bathe your mother-in-law. Anything less will probably incur God's wrath.
It's a shame a lot of the NuAtheists ended up breaking right because I can relate with wanting to irritate the shit out of these people at every possible opportunity
Yeah, it's interesting. I was just kind of a RationalWiki type then so I already kind of broke left, mostly just seems like it's some of the bigger figures that broke right?
I hear TJ ended up leaning more into the left politics. Not sure about that, though, haven't really thought of the guy in a while.
Even setting aside how fucked up the christo fascism is would love to hear chuds explain to kids why keep the lords day holy doesn't apply to working in a meat packing plant on weekends and why "thou shall not kill" doesn't apply to any of the people you're supposed to hate.
It's for people who pretend to worship an almighty god as a vector for dominating people with godless capitalism and nationalism. The "love thy neighbor" shit gets tossed at the first convenience.
"The GOP-drafted legislation mandates that a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” be required in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities"
Put it in Arabic or Cyrillic script, take it to the courts
I’m kind of divided about this because I was once hardcore coveting my neighbor’s cattle but once I read the Ten Commandments I decided to just go to church every Sunday instead.
It used to be you could stop this by getting the Catholics and Protestants to fight each other over which God the state would sponsor. Now that's moot eversince they merged. American Catholics are just Protestants now and American Protestants rely on Catholic apologists to be their intellectuals.
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lol, guessing their next law will add the 'Murican asterisk: unless it is more profitable to do so, or you really want to and identify as Christian and are white
Because they are making the argument that it is historical with regards to the state, and historically Christianity in Louisiana was either French or Spanish Catholicism. Baton Rogue specifically was French.
Why French and not like whatever language the old testament was originally in
Short answer is we know it was Hebrew, but we don't know what kind of Hebrew, because the Hebrew language changed over time.
On the basis of a variety of arguments, modern secular scholars generally see the completed Torah as a product of the time of the Persian Achaemenid Empire (probably 450–350 BCE). The absence of archaeological evidence for the Exodus narrative, and the evidence pointing to anachronisms in the patriarchal narratives of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, have convinced the vast majority of scholars that the Torah does not give an accurate account of the origins of Israel.This implies that the Torah could not have been written by Moses during the second millennium BCE, as Jewish tradition teaches. It is generally agreed that Classical Hebrew and Late Biblical Hebrew had distinctive, identifiable features and that Classical Hebrew was earlier. Classical Hebrew is usually dated to the period before the Babylonian captivity (597–539 BCE), while Late Biblical Hebrew is generally dated to the exilic and post-exilic periods. However, it is difficult to determine precisely when Classical Hebrew ceased being used, since there are no extant Hebrew inscriptions of substantial length dating from the relevant period (c. 550–200 BCE). Another methodological difficulty with linguistic dating is that it is known that the biblical authors often intentionally used archaisms for stylistic effects, sometimes mixing them with words and constructions from later periods. This means that the presence of archaic language in a text cannot be considered definitive proof that the text dates to an early period.
Hypocrites have no inheritance in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Their theology is wacky! Christ LIFTED us from the Mosiac LAW, because there was only condemnation under the Law! And now you have these fucks ignoring Christ's sacrifice, all to pretend that they are good people. By their fruits you shall know them, and these fucks refuse to even give their workers heat breaks! In this fucking weather!