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

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“The Ten Commandments are the basis of all laws in Louisiana, and given all the junk our children are exposed to in classrooms today, it’s imperative that we put the Ten Commandments back in a prominent position,” she said.

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Better reasoning than the librarians have for wanting to keep a bunch of pervert shite on the shelves.

This is dumb culture war pandering, but I have seen worse.

Better than the woke gay porn propaganda librarians keep trying to inject into schools, but comes from a similar place on the right.

Well, this isn’t gonna sit well with our teeth-gnashing atheist enthusiasts.

Louisiana is so embarrassing

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or the founding fathers

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Weren't they Christians who formulated our Constitution and entire governing system based on biblical principles?

I'm sure they are just fine.

ETA: Didn't take long for the sky screamers to show up

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Weren't they Christians who formulated our Constitution and entire governing system based on biblical principles?

I'm sure they are just fine.

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“And here, without anger or resentment, I bid you farewell. Sincerely wishing, that as men and Christians, ye may always fully and uninterruptedly enjoy every civil and religious right, and be, in your turn, the means of securing it to others; but that the example which ye have unwisely set, of mingling religion with politics, may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of AMERICA.”

Thomas Paine - Common Sense. From The Online Library of Liberty: The Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume I page 126

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“We the subscribers, citizens of the said Commonwealth, having taken into serious consideration, a Bill printed by order of the last Session of General Assembly, entitled “A Bill establishing a provision for Teachers of the Christian Religion,” and conceiving that the same if finally armed with the sanctions of a law, will be a dangerous abuse of power, are bound as faithful members of a free State to remonstrate against it, and to declare the reasons by which we are determined. We remonstrate against the said Bill…
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“3. Because it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of Citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The free men of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much soon to forget it. Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?”

James Madison - Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments c. June 20, 1785.

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“The bill for establishing religious freedom, the principles of which had, to a certain degree, been enacted before, I had drawn in all the latitude of reason & right. It still met with opposition; but, with some mutilations in the preamble, it was finally past; and a singular proposition proved that it’s protection of opinion was meant to be universal. Where the preamble declares that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word ‘Jesus Christ,’ so that it should read ‘a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion’ the insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of it's protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo and infidel of every denomination.”
Thomas Jefferson - Autobiography. July 27, 1821.

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bad move by Louisiana, Public schools should not be teaching anything religous. By saying a school must display the 10 commandments you open it up to challenges by muslims to display the 5 pillars of Islam or satanist from displaying something with the devil.

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

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On Wednesday, she referenced Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, a landmark 2022 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the government cannot stop an individual from engaging in personal religious observance, or else risk violating the First Amendment.

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This means a school can not stop someone from praying not that that they must display something religious. I swear our elected officials are some of the dumbest people around

Half the kids cant read it. Seems a waste of time.

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

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How stupid

I can't wait for the Satanist statues to appear at schools like what happens when idiots elsewhere do this for courthouses.

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or the founding fathers

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Founders were for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

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.

As long as DC is keeping within those parameters and not officially establishing a state religion for the entirety of the country nor abolishing a religion, then I’m sorry Louisiana’s action offends you but I’m sure there’ll be any number of states who will continue and choose not to display The Commandments and you would find personally more suited to your preferences.