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

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This will be challenged and probably go to SCOTUS and lose.

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Hopefully. That would be the best outcome.

Because otherwise, you are correct. There will be no way to stop all manner of garbage that claims to be religion.

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I swear our elected officials are some of the dumbest people around

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Nah. You get the representation you deserve/demand. They do these things because people (some people) like it when they do.

And some of the people in the "We got to put prayer back in schools!" club surprise me. A local public high school a few years ago went through a controversy about saying a prayer over the P.A. system before football games. I don't exactly remember the details, but it seems like a student group did it in defiance of the conventional wisdom that you aren't supposed to. Or maybe they won some decision in local court...I don't remember.

What I do remember is seeing some people on Facebook who were elated over it that I really thought had much more sense. And no amount of explaining to them that setting that precedent only solidifies the access of someone else to come pray before the games who will say a prayer that they definitely would NOT be elated to hear, none of those explanations made any difference to them.

I think lots of people in a situation like that just give in to the need to virtue signal for the community/their pastor.

But rest assured, if politicians are doing things like this it's because they are confident that it will resonate with their voters. Sometimes they are wrong abot what they think will resonate, but they are right much more often.