Louisiana governor 'can't wait to be sued' after forcing the ten commandments in classrooms

[Across-the-Desk]

Source: Independent - US edition

Louisiana’s Republican Governor Jeff Landry is looking for a legal fight after mandating the Ten Commandments in every classroom in the state.

“I’m going home to sign a bill that places the Ten Commandments in public classrooms,” he said during a recent GOP fundraiser in Tennessee. “I can’t wait to be sued.”

Landry signed the bill into law on Wednesday, making Louisiana the first state in the US to require all public schools and universities to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ten-commandments-louisiana-governor-veto-b2565515.html

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Conservative Christian Nationalist hate the U.S.A., it's Constitution and especially it's rights... 8 of the 10 Commandments go directly against the U.S. Constitution.

[Easterncedar]

1. Get those graven images outta here!

And how many of the commandments has Cheeto Jeebus broken and then bragged about it?

[BidenRocks]

18. Put it next to

The Kama Sutra!
One is actually true!

[forgotmylogin]

30. And the Qur'an.

Freedom of religion. Let's cover the walls with inclusive religious texts.

[padah513]

50. Yep they don't get it. If the Ten Commandments can be placed inside public schools so can any religion's Commandments

Wait until the satanists sue for the right to post theirs. What's the Governor going to do then? Step on their First Amendment rights?

[Skittles]

2. LOL

meanwhile, he will vote for a guy who fucks porn actors while married with baby

[Dave Bowman]

3. He seems to be very proud of himself.

[Initech]

52. Seriously, WTF was Louisiana thinking electing that guy?

Oh wait, they weren't thinking - they were letting Fox News do their thinking for them.

[leftieNanner]

4. "Can't wait to be sued .."

Because they are completely convinced that SCOTUS is on their side.

[bluestarone]

13. Yes, and probably

RIGHT, with THIS court! So, somebodies got to start a DEVIL class there. Let this Supreme court entertain that as well

[Deep State Witch]

35. Satanic Church - You're Up!

Have at it, kids!

[HuskyOffset]

64. You mean Satanic Temple

The Church of Satan and the Satanic Temple are very different.

[Deep State Witch]

66. Yes, Of Course

Brain fart. Thank you for correcting me.

[Freethinker65]

5. Someone needs to place simple posters next to the commandments with the definition of hypocrisy.

[DENVERPOPS]

39. Or

put pictures under the ten commandments, of Republican Politicians that have violated the commandments..............Starting with Trump, the assholes that surround him, the U.S. Republican Senators, and the U.S. Republican Representatives.....

[cstanleytech]

6. The Constitution is 100% clear that doing this is a major no no.

[sop]

7. Every non-christian sect in La should sue to have their own set of doctrines also displayed in the schools.

Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Native Americans and even Louisiana Voodoo practitioners should have the right to erect their own religious shrines in the classrooms.

[JoseBalow]

14. "Jews..."

Do you know the story of the 10 commandments?

[sop]

15. How about a mezuzah affixed to the doorframe at the entrance to every classroom? Or a shofar could be

used to call kids to class instead of a bell?

[JoseBalow]

19. Maybe a nice crumb cake after recess?

[sop]

59. And if they're going to display The Jewish Commandments, put up all 613 Mitzvot, not just the first ten.

[Upthevibe]

45. sop,,,,,,,,,,

Absolutely!

This was my very first thought.

[Ocelot II]

8. Interesting that GOPers are so enthusiastic about posting the 10 Commandments

in schools for children to read, when their Fearless Leader has broken most of them.

1. You shall have no other Gods before me. Check. TFG worships himself first.
2. You shalt not make any graven images. Check. Fake Time covers, many graven images of Himself.
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. Check.
4. Remember the Sabbath day and keep it Holy. Check. Golf on Sunday.
5. Honor your father and mother. Hard to say. Fred was a sociopath, so maybe.
6. You shall not kill. Check - covid.
7. You shall not commit adultery. Check! Hahahaha!
8. You shall not steal. Check. SOP.
9. You shall not bear false witness. Check. All the time.
10. You shall not covet. Check. All the time.

If they can't be gotten rid of, maybe they could at least be used as a starting point for a classroom discussion of the desired behavior of leaders?

[Major Nikon]

38. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's ass

If they are going to list them, they should at least put in the unedited version

[tecelote]

58. The Lincol Project - Commandments

[SamKnause]

9. Fuck you and fuck theocracy !!!

Why can't you worship your imaginary friend:

at home

at your religious friends homes

at your religious schools

at your religious places of worship ???

Your religion is revolting to me !!!

I wouldn't know anything about your religion if you weren't trying to shove it down everyone's throats.

Keep it to yourselves and leave the rest of us alone !!!

Your 10 commandments mean nothing to me and I don't believe in your god.

[tornado34jh]

10. Serious question, would we allow Five Pillars of Islam or the Eight-Fold Path of Buddhism in schools?

Heck, while we're at it, how about this, either everyone has religious freedom, or no one does.

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. Funny, I can't wait for him to be sued, either. ne

[keithbvadu2]

12. Which version? The Catholic or Protestant version?

Many of our right wing brethren want to put forced public prayer and the Bible back in the schools.

They have no qualms about using the gov't to foist their own religious beliefs on the children in public schools without letting the parents decide how they want their children raised.

[Deep State Witch]

16. Thou Shalt Not Worship Any Graven Images

[rubbersole]

24. Golden calves...

...and head, arms, fat ass...

[Firestorm49]

17. A damn Republican wouldn't know the ten

commandments if they bit them in the ass. They preach religion as a disguise only, praying on the intellectually deficient. This country is more nuts than most of us can conceive, and it’s happened far too rapidly.

Here’s a clue. When you’re dead, you’re dead. You’re not going to retain your religious consciousness and play canasta with Aunt Gertrude in “heaven” when you’re gone. No more brain impulses. No more dreaming. No nothing. End of story.

[Warpy]

20. Yeah, WHICH TEN, Asshole?

If they're the KJV, you've just pissed off the Catholics, and there are a hell of a lot of Catholics in Louisiana. If they're the Douay version, then the Baptists are going to be up in arms, they get awfully snotty about Catholics. Plus, there are a lot of other versions from texts that have been rewritten over the last 100 years by men with some kind of axe to grind and they'll piss everybody off.

Plus, the smarter kiddies are going to see there is nothing about abortion or homosexuality there, guess neither one is sinful, the preachers are ally lying their asses off.

I await the interdenominational friction to turn into strife. Way to go, jerk.

[0rganism]

41. Exactly, not like there's only one version to work with

You gotta admire the massive inconsistencies in what the fundies believe to be the inerrant Word Of God. It's really special. The hypocrisy of its loudest proclaimers is the cherry on top of a bullshit sundae.

[LastDemocratInSC]

43. Our Jewish friends have everyone beat...

The Torah contains 613 commandments.

[Warpy]

44. All versions of the Christian bible contain more versions than just one

and with so many to choose from, the battles over it at school board meetings should be pretty epic.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

49. The Hammurabi Code is interesting, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi

[paleotn]

21. 15 commandments? oh...wait....

[Raven123]

31. Mel Brooks is a genius

[PSPS]

33. And he turns 98 a week from this Friday!

[JohnnyRingo]

22. Someone should supply prayer rugs in every classroom.

With a mark on the wall toward Mecca.
Just like the "Commandments", they're there if someone chooses to use them.

[MadLinguist]

23. Can't wait to distribute Five Pillars of Wisdom plaques

To every schoolhouse in every parish for free.
All these dumpy little republican governors so desperate to display their right wing nut job credentials, each one vying to out-crazy the others in their flashy bid for attention. The governor in Tennessee (where Landry gave his whoop-whoop little speech) ol' Bill Lee is a complete non-entity, jumping up & down 'looka me, I'm more Trumpy than Abbot, or even DeSantis". Now Landry is throwing his white hood in.

[slightlv]

25. If I still had kids in school,

the minute they did that, I'd be there with a copy of "The Charge of the Goddess" to be hung right next to it. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Let's not try to take down the 10 Commandments... that's just playing right into the only move they see coming right now. Instead, let's hang the major writings from as many religions as we can get. Hea... if one is good, 100 should be better right?

Then we can sit back and watch them bitch and moan at how Johnny can't read or do math. When all they teach is religion, everything else suffers. And this country goes that much further backwards in the world economy. Those kids who are smart or manage to obtain a decent education will leave the U.S. and take a job in their field in another country that will appreciate them, and pay them appropriately. Probably also give them freedom of/from religion, as well as the other rights this country is stripping from all of us.

Gods, how stupid ARE these magats?! Do they not realize that pendulums swing? (note: they probably don't!). But when THIS pendulum swings back the other way (which it will) they better be glad they got to see their stuff up front for whatever time it was. Because I hope after that, it will ALL be blacklisted and against the law to push it, even covertly, on another person anywhere. All their pomp and circumstance will be for nothing as we push the whole damned mish-mash of xtian nationalism back under the rocks and bury it 10 feet deep - hopefully never to be seen again. While doing that, WE can run the camps their so crazy about building for US, and run them to hopefully deprogram all the cult members. That's my personal like, anyway...

[truthisfreedom]

26. They've opened the door to satanists again.

They’ll demand equal time, and then the kids will hear about them in the news and get curious, and that will ruffle every last feather in the ghoulish old party.

[walkingman]

27. Atheist Ten Commandments

1. “Be open-minded and be willing to alter your beliefs with new evidence.
2. Strive to understand what is most likely to be true, not to believe what you wish to be true.
3. The scientific method is the most reliable way of understanding the natural world.
4. Every person has the right to control their body.
5. God is not necessary to be a good person or to live a full and meaningful life.
6. Be mindful of the consequences of all your actions and recognize that you must take responsibility for them.
7. Treat others as you would want them to treat you, and can reasonably expect them to want to be treated.
8. We have the responsibility to consider others, including future generations.
9. There is no one right way to live.
10. Leave the world a better place than you found it.”

[paleotn]

34. Well said.

[Dr. T]

65. Thank you, Walkingman.

I copied that and will post it in my cubical at work, among other places. A T-shirt might reach a bigger audience. I've always had those ideas in my head but never put them into words. Thanks again. Turns out that Atheists behave more like Christians than most Christians.

[delisen]

28. Republicans want to expose children to Republican adultery

This could get interesting.

[Attilatheblond]

29. Again, a Xian* pol trying to get attention pushing Old Testiment stuff but ignoring the marching orders his savior gave

GOP pols sure don't seem to like all the woke stuff in the beatitudes. Is it because they know their flunky voters want to actually do what their Savior supposedly TOLD THEM TO DO?

*I reserve use of the word CHRISTIAN for those who walk the walk but don't draw attention to themselves doing so

Edit to add the *

[Pas-de-Calais]

32. Somewhere I read ACLU already has

[azureblue]

36. but will he himself

obey the ten commandments? Surely you jest.. Hey Landry, how about you set an example for schoolkids, besides showing them that lying and stealing is OK?

[Aussie105]

37. In the view of being fair to all religions . . .

Is there enough room on a classroom wall to display the 'commandments' from all of them?

Going to be a bit cramped for space!

Before anyone else says it . . . Moran, get a brain!

[Vogon_Glory]

40. A Silver Lining to this Foolishness

Junior and Missy see the Ten Commandments on the wall, go home to talk to their parents about it, and then have to watch Mom and Dad use pretzel logic to explain why they support someone like Donald John who has broken so many of them.

After they’re spanked or sat in the corner, they’ll learn the distinction between “do as I say” and “do as I do.”

[Aussie105]

46. Pretzel logic . . .

nice choice of words!

I'm borrowing it!

[Vogon_Glory]

62. It's not like I invented it

I got it from somebody else

[GarColga]

42. The so-called Ten Commandments

appear, in slightly different forms, three different times in the Old Testament - in Exodus 20, Exodus 34, and Deuteronomy 5. They are not a call to morality, but sets of Iron Age tribal taboos. They weren't written in English by modern day Americans, but by a group of near-barbarians who worshiped a god who loved the smell of blood. They were written exclusively for males in the Hebrew cult. If you get your morality from the Old Testament, please stay away from me.

[Aussie105]

47. Smite thy enemies!

MAGAts would approve.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

48. ACLU is on it!

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The Breakdown: ACLU challenges law requiring 10 commandments in classrooms
WWLTV

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Jun 19, 2024

In your Breakdown, Governor Jeff Landry said he ‘couldn’t wait’ to be sued over a new law requiring the 10 commandments in Louisiana classrooms.

Thank goodness for ACLU, AU and Freedom From Religion Foundation......

[Initech]

51. Hey Jeff Landry - take your damn commandments...

And go shove them straight up your ass! This is grossly unconstitutional and you know it. Fuck you, asshole!

[tirebiter]

55. The Supreme Court that ruled th inclusion of religion in class rooms

Has been replaced by one that sees things differently. Get ready for this and more.

[Initech]

67. Oh great, I fear the fix for permanent fascism is in.

The Southern Strategy was a truly colossal mistake. We should have never given these assholes the time of day.

[Beartracks]

53. More culture-war theater from conservative Republicans.

If you "can't wait to be sued," then it's just another Republican wanting drama to stoke his base, not actually serve any public good.

Pfft, but they don't care.

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

54. The ACLU will be filing a lawsuit

[mwb970]

56. I am SO SICK of religious people.

I thought they were all going to be Raptured away years ago. What ever happened to that?

[Lemon Lyman]

57. UGH

[samnsara]

60. this will be a giant spit wad target...

Spit wads, Satanic Church prayers, flipping off... you just dont tell high school kids what to do

[atreides1]

61. Must be nice

He looks forward to spending tax payer money for a cause that he's likely to lose...instead of investing in education!

Besides, the "10 Commandments" is nothing more then the Reader's Digest condensed version! Another short cut the church took...

[LetMyPeopleVote]

63. Why Louisiana's radical new law on Ten Commandments, schools matters

The Supreme Court has said Ten Commandments displays in public schools are unconstitutional. Louisiana Republicans passed a new law on this anyway.

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/louisianas-radical-new-law-ten-commandments-schools-matters-rcna158001

In recent months, a handful of Republican-dominated states have flirted with the idea of government-sponsored religious displays in public school classrooms, though those efforts ultimately fell short. As NBC News reported, however, GOP officials in Louisiana actually followed through on the idea.

Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed into law Wednesday. The GOP-drafted legislation mandates that a poster-size display of the Ten Commandments in a “large, easily readable font” be in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities.

Under the new law, which will take effect in 2025, assorted other documents — including the Mayflower Compact and the Declaration of Independence — can also be displayed in classrooms, but only the Decalogue is required.....

It wasn’t long before Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation announced their intention to challenge the new law in court.

“The law violates the separation of church and state and is blatantly unconstitutional,” the groups said in a joint statement. “The First Amendment promises that we all get to decide for ourselves what religious beliefs, if any, to hold and practice, without pressure from the government. Politicians have no business imposing their preferred religious doctrine on students and families in public schools.”....

So why would Louisiana Republicans take a step that the Supreme Court has already rejected? It’s probably because they’re confident that the newly politicized high court and its dominant far-right majority — not to mention the brazen Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals — will simply overturn the Stone precedent, doing fresh harm to the wall that’s supposed to separate church and state in this country.

“I can’t wait to be sued,” Landry said at a fundraiser over the weekend. Those were the words of a partisan who expects his ideological judicial allies to let him trample over Louisianans’ religious rights.

[Happy Hoosier]

68. Absolute Pieces of Shit.

MUST be defeated.

[Paladin]

69. "Mommy, what's 'Adultery' ?"

We've got a new sign on the wall of our class, and it says you're not supposed to do adultery. I asked the teacher what adultery was, but she didn't want to talk about it. So I asked Jimmy Smithers, who sits next to me, and he told me something really nasty. I need your help on this, mommy...

[sakabatou]

70. *puts up the Sigil of Bahomet wherever the 10 Commandments are in the classrooms*