The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced on Wednesday that it will be suing the state of Louisiana over its new law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools.
As Breitbart News reported, the state of Louisiana became the first in the nation to mandate that the Ten Commandments be displayed in public school classrooms after Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed it into law.
“Louisiana is the first state to successfully pass legislation requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, including state-funded universities, since the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to banish the tenets from America’s classrooms in 1980,” said the report.
“Efforts to restore the commandments to public schools are active in other states, including Texas, Oklahoma, and Utah, although none so far have been successful,” it added.
Hours after it became law, the ACLU announced it would be fighting it in court.
“We’re suing Louisiana for requiring all public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. Public schools are not Sunday schools,” it said, adding that it will join with ACLU Louisiana and other organizations to “fight with everything we have to stop this blatantly unconstitutional law.”
Along with @ACLUofLouisiana, @americansunited and @FFRF, we’ll fight with everything we have to stop this blatantly unconstitutional law.
— ACLU (@ACLU) June 19, 2024
It should be noted that the specific bill in question said that no state or taxpayer funds can be used to display the Ten Commandments and only allowed for schools to use donated funds.
“History records that James Madison, the fourth President of the United States of America, stated that ‘(w)e have staked the whole future of our new nation . . . upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments,”‘ the bill reads.
Other groups opposed the law, charging that it imposes Christianity on students.
“It is meant to impose Christianity on all students in Louisiana’s public schools, even if they belong to a minority religion or no religion at all,” The Center for Inquiry’s director of government affairs Azhar Majeed wrote in a June 14 letter to Governor Landry.
People of various persuasions voiced their approval and disapproval of the law on social media.
If your version of Christianity wants to put the Ten Commandments in schools but take free lunch out of them, you are worshipping something other than Jesus.
— Zach W. Lambert (@ZachWLambert) June 19, 2024
“When I was hungry” you put up posters of the Ten Commandments in my classroom while making sure I didn’t get lunch at school.
“Whatever you do for the least of these, you do unto me.” -Jesus
— Rev. Benjamin Cremer (@Brcremer) June 19, 2024
Can someone explain to me how putting a rainbow in a classroom is “indoctrination,” but the Ten Commandments isn’t?
— John Collins (@Logically_JC) June 19, 2024
Fundamentalist Christians are putting the Ten Commandments in Louisiana public schools.
Now, their kids will know God is deeply offended by stealing, coveting thy neighbor’s wife, coveting thy neighbor’s goods, adultery & bearing false witness.
And this November, those kids…
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) June 19, 2024
The Ten Commandments are the foundational script of our Constitutional principles of law and equality of justice under God. It’s why Moses directly faces the Speakers podium on the House floor, while all other busts are turned to profile. pic.twitter.com/emU1VGkxkH
— Rep. Clay Higgins (@RepClayHiggins) June 20, 2024
The day that the Ten Commandments can’t be displayed in classrooms while BLM and Pride flags can, is the day that we confirm with certainty that the old republic is dead https://t.co/F2kcRGGFrE
— Jared Rabel (@JradRabel) June 20, 2024
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