re: Bill requiring Louisiana public schools to display the Ten Commandments passes House

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Founders were also believers in individual states conducting most of their affairs without heavy federal interference and I doubt would’ve stepped in to tell an individual state who wished to display the Ten Commandments in its public settings to cease.

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This bill, if it becomes law, will likely be challenged as unconstitutional (along with the dumb arse bill requiring In God We Trust to be displayed in every classroom).

The Constitutional provisions prohibiting Congress from making laws respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise is incorporated into the states (and state legislatures) via Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment. This bill is essentially allowing government via the legislature to impose and establish religion (specifically Christian religion) in public schools and in schools that receive public funding. On its face, it is unconstitutional.

If a student or teacher wants to pray individually, completely constitutional (free exercise clause).

If government imposes a law promoting the establishment of religion, completely unconstitutional (establishment clause).

It's not a hard concept to grasp.