Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) has an absurd theory about how displaying the Ten Commandments in classrooms could have prevented last weekend’s shooting of former President Donald Trump. During a Thursday interview with Nexstar Media at the Republican National Convention, Landry justified using taxpayer dollars to defend his state from lawsuits after it passed new … Read more
A group of families are working to block the new Louisiana law that mandates educators to display the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. “Permanently posting the Ten Commandments in every Louisiana public-school classroom–rendering them unavoidable– unconstitutionally pressures students into religious observance, veneration, and adoption of the state’s … Read more
Louisiana has triggered a national controversy with a new law mandating that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public classrooms. The law signed by the state’s GOP governor has been blasted by civil liberties groups, which argue it infringes on the rights of students and blatantly ignores the separation of church and state. The … Read more
“The Daily Show” correspondent Michael Kosta joked that it’s “not that hard” for Republicans to follow the biblical Ten Commandments on Thursday after Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signed a GOP-backed bill into law requiring the directives be put on display in public classrooms. Co-host Desi Lydic tossed to Kosta and asked how Republicans can … Read more
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — 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 … Read more
