‘Deeply and bizarrely obsessed’: Families slam Louisiana effort to force ‘Protestant version’ of Ten Commandments into all public school classrooms

Background: FILE - A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted along with other historical documents in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol, Thursday, June 20, 2024, in Atlanta (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File). Inset: Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry speaks with reporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court after justices heard oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri, a first amendment case involving the federal government and social media platforms in Washington, D.C., March 18, 2024 (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images).

Background: FILE – A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted along with other historical documents in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol, Thursday, June 20, 2024, in Atlanta (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File). Inset: Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry speaks with reporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., March 18, 2024 (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images).

The nation’s most conservative federal appeals court has turned down Louisiana’s request to begin enforcing its controversial “Ten Commandments Law” while litigation about the law’s constitutionality proceeds.

Louisiana passed a new law in June that made it he first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom by Jan. 1, 2025. Under the new statute, the commandments must be displayed, “on a poster or framed document that is at least eleven inches by fourteen inches,” in “a large, easily readable font.”

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, insisted the law was a way of respecting “the original law giver, Moses,” and bragged, “I can’t wait to be sued,” in response to concerns about the law’s constitutionality.

The ACLU called the law “blatantly unconstitutional,” and filed a lawsuit on behalf of Louisiana families with children in public schools to challenge it.

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