re: LSU to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms, President Wade Rousse confirms

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America was founded as a Christian nation

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Can we please keep church and state separate as the founding fathers intended and explicitly stated?

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Can we please keep church and state separate as the founding fathers intended and explicitly stated?

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Where did they explicitly state this?

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Laminated posters on the wall will fix the ills you perceived?

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It ain’t gonna hurt.

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It ain’t gonna hurt.

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Or help.

But let's spend money on something that adds no value to higher education, the state is good at that. I'm sure some 18-year-old freshman will see this 11×14" laminated paper on the wall of their 500-person college algebra class and think to themselves, "Damn, I really need to honor my father and mother more." No, they will get torn down by belligerent left-wing assholes and have to be replaced every week.

Even if the posters themselves are "donated" (likely by the Murdoch family, who effectively run most Christian publishing firms and make tens of billions a year in Bible sales to institutions, unbeknownst to the public), there is a huge labor cost, taking Facility Services away from their normal jobs to put up posters in a thousand classrooms, then constantly replace them. LSU and ULL and LA Tech can absorb that, but Southern and Southeastern and UNO can't. It will eventually add up in deferred maintenance for the smaller public schools, which the state (i.e., LA taxpayers) will then pay even more for.

The LSU student body is relatively non-political and relatively conservative, compared to other flagships, especially outside the South. If this happened at a school where most students actually gave a political shite, there would be organized underground campus movements to remove the posters as soon as they were put up, and/or post "alternative" commandments on the public fora. That may still happen even at LSU, if you buy into the PT board conspiracies of widespread Soros-funded campus antifa orgs.

This is such a waste of time, energy, and money. Unless you're Governor Landry, in which case it serves a higher political end. Literally the only reason this is happening. He probably doesn't even personally believe in it--he just has no morals. JMO he's angling for a VP bid with Vance 2030. Trying to up his Project 2025 bona fides.

Neither he nor Vance has any actual consistent ideology. No conservative, or even classical liberal, true believers here. They are both political opportunists whose values coincide with whoever the "cool kid" is at the moment. Both quintessential manchurian puppet candidates, with terrifying skeletons in their closets that compromise them to corporate lobbyists and deep staters.

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Can we please keep church and state separate as the founding fathers intended and explicitly stated?

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We don’t have an official state religion, like England, and neither entity is trying to control the other in any way. It is not an issue in this country.

People just love shouting out “separation of church and state” when they see something like a prayer at a football game. It has nothing to do with that.

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and neither entity is trying to control the other in any way.

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This is a requirement for publicly-funded schools specifically pushing the narrative of one religion.

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I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.”

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So, are the Feds putting the 10 commandments in the schools?

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we're to be governed like a Christian nation, let's get with it and make some laws. Make divorce and adultery a crime. Allow companies to fire people for missing church. Put your money where your mouth is. Unless you hate the Lord, of course

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sounds awesome actually, you're comparing apples to oranges. Ten commandments displayed vs making certain sins a crime. Nice fallacy. Try again.

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in all seriousness what is the point of putting the 10 commandments in classrooms? what exactly is that going to change whatsoever?

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I truly do believe Landry is dumb enough to believe this posturing will lead to some grand repair of society's moral fabric.