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CHRISTIAN BREAKING NEWS: Louisiana Becomes First US State to Mandate Display of 10 Commandments in All Public Schools | Is It Constitutional? ACLU to File Lawsuit [#LouisianaTenCommandments #JeffLandry #GovJeffLandry]

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Louisiana has become the first US state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom, the latest action by a Republican-controlled Legislature pushing a conservative agenda under a new governor.

Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed legislation into law on Wednesday mandating a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities.

“If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses”

who got the commandments from God, Landry explained.

Opponents questioned the law’s constitutionality and vowed to challenge it in court.

Proponents claimed that the proposal has historical value in addition to being religious.

According to the law, the Ten Commandments are “foundational documents of our state and national government.”

The posters, which will be accompanied by a 4-paragraph “context statement” outlining how the Ten Commandments “were a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries,” must be installed in classrooms by the beginning of 2025.

Under the law, public funds will not be used to implement the mandate.

The posters would be paid for using donations.

The law also “authorizes” but does not require the display of other items in K-12 public schools, including the Mayflower Compact, which was signed by religious pilgrims aboard the Mayflower in 1620 and is often referred to as America’s “First Constitution”; the Declaration of Independence; and the Northwest Ordinance, which established a government in the Northwest Territory — in today’s Midwest — and created a pathway for admitting new states to the Union.

Soon after the governor signed the bill into law at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic School in Lafayette on Wednesday, civil rights groups and organizations opposed to religion in government threatened to file a lawsuit challenging it.

According to a joint statement issued Wednesday afternoon by the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation, the law prevents students from receiving an equal education and will keep children of different beliefs from feeling safe at schools.

“Even among those who may believe in some version of the Ten Commandments, the particular text that they adhere to can differ by religious denomination or tradition. The government should not be taking sides in this theological debate,”

the groups argued.

The controversial law, enacted in a Bible Belt state, comes as Louisiana enters a new era of conservative leadership under Landry, who succeeded 2-term Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards in January.

The GOP has a supermajority in the Legislature, and Republicans occupy every statewide elected position, allowing lawmakers to push a conservative agenda.

Similar bills requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms have been presented in Texas, Oklahoma, and Utah.

However, despite threats of court battles over the legitimacy of such laws, no state other than Louisiana has passed the bills into law.

Legal battles over displaying the Ten Commandments in classrooms are not new.

In 1980, the United States Supreme Court found that a similar Kentucky law was unconstitutional and violated the establishment clause of the United States Constitution, which states that Congress may not “make any law respecting an establishment of religion.”

The supreme court determined that the law had no secular aim and instead had a clearly religious purpose.

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