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Activist groups are seeking to overturn Louisiana’s new requirement for the religious text to be posted in public schools.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other activist groups have joined with nine Louisiana families to sue the state over a new law that requires publicly funded schools to post copies of the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

The case was filed on Monday in the US District Court in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The plaintiffs claimed that the controversial law “substantially interferes” with the constitutional right of parents to raise their children in the religion of their choosing. The lawsuit added that the state mandate sends a “harmful and religiously divisive message” that students of different beliefs “do not belong in their own school community.”

Governor Jeff Landry signed the legislation into law last week, making Louisiana the first US state to require all public schools to display the Ten Commandments. Specifically, the law dictates that a Protestant translation of the Bible verses be used. It applies to all primary and secondary schools, as well as universities, that receive state funding.

The Rev. Jeff Sims, pastor of a Presbyterian church in Madisonville, Louisiana, was one of two clergymen who joined in the lawsuit. “By favoring one version of the Ten Commandments and mandating that it be posted in public schools, the government is intruding on deeply personal matters of religion,” Simms told reporters on Monday.

Parents of various religious faiths, as well as some who are non-religious, are also among the plaintiffs. Alanah Odoms, executive director of the ACLU’s Louisiana chapter, called the new law “religious indoctrination” and argued that it is blatantly unconstitutional. “This law strikes at the core of religious freedom,” she said.

The legislation refers to the Ten Commandments as “foundational documents” of Louisiana’s state and national governments. “I look forward to implementing the law and defending Louisiana’s sovereign interest to select classroom content fundamental to America’s foundation,” Louisiana Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley said in a statement to WWL-TV, the CBS News affiliate in New Orleans.

Former President Donald Trump endorsed the new law on Friday, saying he would also like to see the Ten Commandments displayed in other public places. “This may be, in fact, the first major step in the revival of religion, which is desperately needed in our country,” he said in a Truth Social post.

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    • Well, i don t need ” the ten commendments” to know what is right or wrong. And spirituality has nothing to do with religion.

      • Respectfully, you know right from wrong because you grew up in a country that was founded on Christian principles. Doesn’t even matter whether the bible is true or a complete fairy-tale; your (and your parents and grandparents) moral code has been shaped and guided by it whether you like it or not. I don’t expect you to be a bible thumping, hand clapping evangelist – you go ahead and believe whatever you want by all means – but to deny it is to simply lie to yourself.

        If we’d grown up in Haiti we’d probably all think voodoo was normal too.

        Oh and spirituality has pretty much everything to do with religion. There’s about six thousand years of human history carved into pyramid walls, stacked at Stonehenge and buried at Gobekli Teppe that can attest to this.

      • Anonymous, I did not mention religion. Spiritual people also recognize the existence of God: God is where our consciousness comes from and how we “are made in God’s image”. Without consciousness connecting all life in space and time, how would something like remote-viewing even work – it couldn’t.

        The Globalists want to create a God-less society that denies the existence of the real God, but instead creates the false facade of their techno-administrative “religion” which is a sort of communism with fascism mixed together where you “worship” the state.

        Some other counterpoints to the Globalists “religion” are …
        Love rather than lust.
        Relationships rather than one-night stands.
        Babies rather than abortions.
        Nurturing children rather than indoctrinating them to have sex-changes.
        Teaching children to love others rather than hate others.
        Teaching children to love nature more than they love technology.
        Teaching children discernment and critical thinking skills rather than falling for indoctrination.

        I’ve noticed over the past two-or-three-decades people enslaving themselves to technology: How many times have you seen someone (or many) staring into their mobile phone whilst completely oblivious to the beautiful views around them? How often to people play on their devices at home rather than cultivating some interesting hobbies that enrich their life?

        The more counterpoints to this, the better, before we are all turned into “the Borg” by our own making.

  1. Well the ten commandments were issued via Moses. When he came back down the mountain people were worshipping false idols and Gods. These very same ones have been taken up quite a bit recently and is pretty much what all the chaos is being caused by. People with freaky satanic beliefs. I think it’s a good reminder of our values and which I think should prevail. You can be respectful of that and still determine your own beliefs even as a young child.

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