Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. Republican Gov.

Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday.

The GOP-drafted legislation mandates that a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” be required in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities. Although the bill did not receive final approval from Landry, the time for gubernatorial action — to sign or veto the bill — has lapsed.

Opponents question the law’s constitutionality, warning that lawsuits are likely to follow. Proponents say the purpose of the measure is not solely religious, but that it has historical significance. In the law’s language, the Ten Commandments are described as “foundational documents of our state and national government.

  • HossenfefferEnglish
    14·
    5 months ago

    “If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses”

    Bollocks, more like.

    The earliest known laws are from The Code of Ur-Nammu from Mesopotamia written on tablets around  2100–2050 BCE. If Moses existed, he was probably chiselling away at his tables six or seven hundred years later.

    So I demand that these laws replace the 10 Commandments in schools. Who could forget such classics as:

    • If a prospective son-in-law enters the house of his prospective father-in-law, but his father-in-law later gives his daughter to another man, the father-in-law shall return to the rejected son-in-law twofold the amount of bridal presents he had brought.
    • If a man’s slave-woman, comparing herself to her mistress, speaks insolently to her, her mouth shall be scoured with 1 quart of salt.
    • If a man, in the course of a scuffle, smashed the limb of another man with a club, he shall pay one mina of silver.
    • If a man stealthily cultivates the field of another man and he raises a complaint, this is however to be rejected, and this man will lose his expenses.
      • HossenfefferEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        In today’s money? About 17p, or 21 US cents. Shocking, really. I’ve got a club because at that price, why wouldn’t you?

    • TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      They don’t care about ACTUAL history. They’re trying to defend themselves by shifting any criticism onto “the original lawgiver,” and knowing full well that most Americans get their history from church (and bad TV in a close second), they invoke God as a shield to do whatever awful injustices make them erect that week