A historic new law requires a poster in every public-school classroom - but campaigners will challenge it.

Louisiana has become the first US state to order that every public school classroom up to university level must display a poster of the Ten Commandments.

The Republican-backed measure signed into law by Governor Jeff Landry on Wednesday describes the commandments as “the foundational documents of our state and national government”.

The law is expected to be challenged by civil rights groups, which argue that it contravenes the separation between church and state enshrined in the first amendment to the US Constitution, the so-called Establishment Clause.

  • Hux@lemmy.ml
    23·
    8 days ago

    Look up the actual commandments from Christian mythology—it is weird as shit.

    First, it makes the Christian god come across as super-insecure.

    Then, it just lists extra-obvious shit—like, “Wow, I am so relieved the magic man in the sky told me not to murder or steal, because otherwise I would be totally murdering, and stealing, and probably coveting the absolute fuck out of my neighbor’s donkey right now”.

    Why in the fuck does anybody believe this has a place in a public school?

    Also, does Louisiana “actually” believe their government and system of laws is based in the Bible’s 10 commandments? It isn’t possible that the basic “don’t murder and don’t steal” shit is just universal? As far as Louisiana knows, non-Abrahamic societies are just totes chilly-willy with living “The Purge” every single day?

    And somehow posters will answer this question nobody asked? Cool.

    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
      5·
      8 days ago

      Technically speaking, the Ten Commandments are Jewish, Christian, and Islamic. They’re in the Torah, the Bible, and the Qur’an.

        • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
          2·
          7 days ago

          It’s the same story of Exodus in all three. The Torah, aka the Old Testament, as well as the psalms and gospels from the New Testament are part of the Qur’an.