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.
i guess that position makes all amendments null and void then? including the 2nd to the US constitution?
This state government is the worst one I’ve ever seen. Filled with morons. They believe in fairy tales and magic. There is no voice of reason in that state house.
I used to live in that state. So glad I left, no fucking idea what I was doing there in the first place. Even Texas is better.
I live an work in Scotland, as part of our job we’re voluntold to speak to young people considering a trades apprenticeship. Last month was my turn, one of the kids was going for his welding ticket. His game plan was to immediately move to Texas. I told him there’s loads of places you’d be less likely to be shot considering how lippy he is.
Lots of work in that area in Texas though, with Air Products having a lot of plants in TX and AZ as well as the refineries.
But if he’s trying to get chemical plant work and not just construction, make sure they know how to weld pipe - something like being able to do a 6G position MIG weld with a TIG root on pipe should be absolutely required for anyone thinking about plant work or pipe fabrication.
Scotland is oil country sadly. A lot of the money that comes into small communities is from people going off to work the rigs. So I’m positive that that’s something they’d be taught.
This country is so completely fucked.
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.
6 and 8 are the only ones that are laws, and those are just common sense shit, don’t murder or steal. The first 4 are telling you what god to worship and how, which are explicitly the opposite of what a government is built on.
I’d love for them to point to where it suggests that in either the federal or state constitutions.
I wouldn’t point to state constitutions there’s probably a few that do say that.
One now does…
Thomas Jefferson would never roll over in his grave. He would have his slaves roll him.
Atonal screaming heard in distance
Glad I’m far enough down this rabbit hole to get the reference.
You know who else atonally screams into the void…?
The… products and services that support this lemmy thread?
Bunch of uneducated goons.
Oh, they know they’re lying, they just want to lie so much they bury the truth re-write the past (which is kinda ironic if you think about it, given that whole eight commandment). It’s kinda the same way the “Lost Cause of the Confederacy” is embedded into American mythology despite being a after-the-fact whitewashing of history.
No one challenged the law makers to prove that they were right. They are lying because they can get away with it - no one in any position of power asked or was asked which foundational document was forged by forefathers from Christian (or any religion) doctrine.
Sounds like something The Satanic Temple may have an issue with.
The story has been corrected to clarify that the time for gubernatorial action did not lapse. The governor signed the bill Wednesday.
“If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses”
Bollocks, more like.
The earliest known laws are from The Code of Ur-Nammu from Mesopotamia written on tablets around 2100–2050 BCE. If Moses existed, he was probably chiselling away at his tables six or seven hundred years later.
So I demand that these laws replace the 10 Commandments in schools. Who could forget such classics as:
- If a prospective son-in-law enters the house of his prospective father-in-law, but his father-in-law later gives his daughter to another man, the father-in-law shall return to the rejected son-in-law twofold the amount of bridal presents he had brought.
- If a man’s slave-woman, comparing herself to her mistress, speaks insolently to her, her mouth shall be scoured with 1 quart of salt.
- If a man, in the course of a scuffle, smashed the limb of another man with a club, he shall pay one mina of silver.
- If a man stealthily cultivates the field of another man and he raises a complaint, this is however to be rejected, and this man will lose his expenses.
How much is a Mina in pounds?
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
Okay but what if they are masochists?
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.
There should be penalties for anyone who passes an obviously unconstitutional law.
Immediate loss of all Federal funding. Welfare states like Louisiana will feel the pinch quickly.
I mean personal penalties. There are individual people responsible for this. Punish them, not the state.
There are elections but most of their constitutes don’t care about the constitution so that doesn’t matter. I believe most of these guys have lawyers advising them or are lawyers themselves so the bar might be able to do something.
If the bar stepped in and said advisors and others with law degree could loose them trying to pass laws that were struck down before that might work.
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.
Someone should pull a Martin Luther and nail the part of the constitution that separates church and state to the entrance of the biggest school in the state.
I deserve to have my seven tenets displayed.
Cool, cool, cool … They going to ban pork products and all shellfish too? Or are we cherry picking here… Seems like it be right blasphemous to be cherry picking…
Honestly I can make a whole list.
They going to ban pork products and all shellfish too? Or are we cherry picking here…
“bUt ThaT’s tHE oLD tEsTAmEnT!! 🤓☝️”
Louisiana band shellfish??? Not in a million years
Then they’re all blasphemous and shall all be executed by having stones thrown at them until death.
I agree, they all must get stoned.
I’m sure that will never get graffitied. I look forward to finding out how many times kids can work the word “fart” into them and have it still make sense.
The difference between ‘shalt’ and ‘shart’ may be as little as a few strokes of a sharpie…just saying.
Somebody’s breaking the second commandment…
The jewish one, the catholic one or the protestant one?
Every patriotic American in Louisiana has an obligation to go into schools and rip those things down.
