Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry held a news conference on Monday to defend a law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms.
Landry defended the law requiring schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms, noting that he plans to fight lawsuits against it.
During the conference hosted by state Attorney General Liz Murrill, Landry told several reporters, “If those posters are in school and they find them so vulgar, just tell the child not to look at it,” in response to the parents who disagree with the law.
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Landry and Murrill responded to a lawsuit during the press conference, stating that a brief would be filed. Murrill noted that the lawsuit is premature since the schools have not physically displayed the posters yet and that the compliance date is January 2025.
Landry signed the law into effect in June, which sparked the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and several parents to sue Louisiana over it. The ACLU stated that the display “unconstitutionally pressures students into religious observance, veneration, and adoption.”
The law requires all Louisiana schools from Kindergarten to college to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms along with a statement explaining how the Ten Commandments contributed to America’s education. Donations pay for the posters in classrooms, and no public funding is used.
“I did not know the Ten Commandments was such a bad way for someone to live their life,” Landry stated in the press conference.
Other states, like Oklahoma, have mandated that the Bible, including the Ten Commandments, be taught in classrooms for grades five through 12 for the 2024-2025 school year. In a June memo, state Education Superintendent Ryan Walters stated that the Bible will be referenced as an “appropriate study of history, civilization, ethics, comparative religion, or the like, as well as for their substantial influence on our nation’s founders and the foundational principles of our Constitution.”
“I don’t see what the whole big fuss is about,” Landry stated during the news conference.
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