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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] 107 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Display them in Arabic.

This would never have survived scotus 5 years ago. Today I would not bet against them finding it constitutional

[–] [email protected] 54 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Lol, that's exactly what I thought of too. Assuming https://legiscan.com/LA/text/HB71/2024 is correct I think my image fits the legal requirements.

It does specify specific text, but it doesn't say I can't add additional text.

Also it has to be easily readable.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Maybe they should add an eleventh? “Though shalt not covet your cousin, or anyone more closely related, or children… and since you made me have to put this in writing you’re all going to hell.”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

In what language?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

They love being unconstitutional when it is in their interest.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There should be penalties for anyone who passes an obviously unconstitutional law.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Immediate loss of all Federal funding. Welfare states like Louisiana will feel the pinch quickly.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I mean personal penalties. There are individual people responsible for this. Punish them, not the state.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They are the state. Literally.

What you mean is don't punish innocent people already struggling.

Whom neither they, nor their jackbooted enforcers in the police, are, and will not feel or care.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If I was a student there I would constantly be taking them down and ripping them up. Or making my own version that looks exactly the same but changes the wording.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Time to just Blame the Bible for the shit show we are in right now -.-.

Happy Pride. 🌈

I'm an anarchist that loathed doing the pledge of muh legance, as I don't believe in God.

Bless our country my ass. Under God my ass.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hmm… doesn’t specifically basing any laws on a universally recognized organized religion by definition a violation of Church and State? Doesn’t explicitly stating a religious totem qualify as favoring one religion over others? Doesn’t this also violate the Lemon Test since it in no way can be seen as secular in nature to put religious text in any form inside a classroom that is funded by the state? Seems they wrote themselves the reason to strike down the law into the law itself.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Fuck your fairy tales.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (5 children)

The 10 that are left after Moses dropped the third tablet.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Under appreciated comment right there

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Yeah does the law specify which ones? Many christian sects have slightly different wording and ordering.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The actual 10 commandments:

11 Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 12 Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you. 13 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.[a] 14 Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

15 “Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices. 16 And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.

17 “Do not make any idols.

18 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt.

19 “The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock. 20 Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons.

“No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

21 “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.

22 “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year.[b] 23 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel. 24 I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the Lord your God.

25 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.

26 “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.

“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago
  1. Ice cream is tasty, but don't overdo it.
  2. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
  3. Be nice.
  4. Like for real, stop being an asshole.
  5. Greed is for Ferengi, don't overdo it.
  6. Dogs are great friends. Go pet one immediately.
  7. Be careful when petting a cat's belly. It could be a trap.
  8. Be careful when your girl says 'it's fine'. It's not. Buy chocolate.
  9. Eight commandments are enough, ten are a lot of effort
  10. But really, be nice.
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I would be seriously motivated to counterlegislate the posting of what Jesus replaced all of them with:

Golden rule: treat others [at minimum, if not better than] how you would want to be treated. And help your neighbor to upgrade their standards if that seems to be a bottleneck even still

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Okay but what if they are masochists?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

That's what I'm saying about upgrading their standards. If you want to be treated and treat others like shit, the person with higher standards should be deferred to as the default de minima of social decency. Like, people should be invited and introduced to being treated with respect and dignity and be able to experience that first-hand with grace but also assertiveness.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

"Fascists continue to fascist"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Oh, .... good ... since one of the commandments say you should not kill .... then we can get rid of everyone's guns then.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

I’m pretty sure none of the people behind this keep the sabbath, either.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

No, they reverse justified that fir Iraq War II. Cause y’know Gee Dubz was so jesusy.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

The story has been corrected to clarify that the time for gubernatorial action did not lapse. The governor signed the bill Wednesday.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'll believe in their god as soon as they start electing officials that follow those commandments.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Don't worry about me... It'll never happen.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 7 months ago

Incoming Satanic Temple poster right beside it!

[–] [email protected] 245 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Can't wait to see the ~~eight~~ seven tenets of the Satanic Temple right up there next to them

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Thank you! I'll edit the original

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Please donate to The Satanic Temple if you care about this topic and are able.

[–] [email protected] 166 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

the Ten Commandments are described as “foundational documents of our state and national government.

Jefferson must be rolling in his grave so fast that he could power the whole east coast. Bunch of uneducated goons.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thomas Jefferson would never roll over in his grave. He would have his slaves roll him.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Atonal screaming heard in distance

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I’d love for them to point to where it suggests that in either the federal or state constitutions.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 7 months ago

What a shithole state.

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