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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.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Text is laid out in the law:

https://legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379435

The Ten Commandments
I AM the LORD thy God.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven images.
Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his cattle, nor anything that is thy neighbor's

And then there's a context statement trying to pretend this is a foundational legal document of the United States.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

I take it shops in Loiusiana will be closed on Saturday from now on as well as everyone being forbidden form working?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thou shalt not kill.

no more capital punishment,

and if one sins, God will punish one's children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Makes me wonder actually how badly this'll backfire. Students are inevitably going to ask their teachers why death penalties exist or other things like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(Tyndale)/Matthew#Chapter_19

24 And moreover I saye vnto you: it is easier for a camell to go through the eye of a nedle then for a ryche man to enter into the kyngdome of God.

😁🙂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Been a minute since I read these. It's so telling that the actual crimes start at 6, and move to thought crimes at 9. The rest is god fluffing itself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

You forgot the most important line!

"Thou shalt use these commandments as the foundation of law in a country called the United States of America in the year 1776 after killing my son"

C'mon it's so iconic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That excludes a lot from the biblical text.

The "no working on the sabbath" thing continues on to list that you also can't make servants work on the sabbath - which would include the poor verbally abused waffle house staff working the Sunday brunch shift when the after church crowd comes in...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Something something Jesus invalidated that part.

Conviently forgetting that means Christianity explicitly does not consider these to be very important.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

There's only like 2.5 of the ten commandments in U.S. law.