{"id":107813,"date":"2024-11-12T18:03:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T18:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/judge-blocks-louisiana-law-requiring-the-ten-commandments-in-classrooms\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T18:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T18:03:33","slug":"judge-blocks-louisiana-law-requiring-the-ten-commandments-in-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/judge-blocks-louisiana-law-requiring-the-ten-commandments-in-classrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge blocks Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments in classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(WASHINGTON) — Louisiana’s new law requiring all\u00a0public school classrooms<\/a>\u00a0to display the Ten Commandments was temporarily blocked on Tuesday by a judge who called it “unconstitutional on its face and in all applications.”<\/p>\n

A multi-faith group of Louisiana families with children in public schools\u00a0sued<\/a>\u00a0the state to challenge the law, HB 71, which mandates that public schools — from kindergarten to the collegiate level — display the religious text in every classroom on “a poster or framed document that is at least 11 inches by 14 inches.”<\/p>\n

The lawsuit argues that requiring poster-sized displays of religious doctrine in classrooms violates the plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights and the separation of church and state.<\/p>\n

The suit further argues that the law violates a U.S. Supreme Court precedent, pointing to the Stone v. Graham case in which the court overturned a similar 1980 Kentucky law, holding that the separation of church and state bars public schools from posting the Ten Commandments in classrooms.<\/p>\n

Supporters of the law say the Ten Commandments have historical significance to the foundation of U.S. history and are not just a religious text.<\/p>\n

In July, both parties agreed that the Ten Commandments would not be posted in any public school classroom and that defendants — including the state’s Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education — would not publicly move forward on the law’s implementation until the court’s decision in November.<\/p>\n

The legislation is\u00a0one of several recent conservative-backed efforts<\/a>\u00a0to incorporate Christianity or religion into the classroom across the country.<\/p>\n

In June, Oklahoma’s state superintendent\u00a0ordered educators<\/a>\u00a0to incorporate the Bible into their lessons, an order that is also in the\u00a0midst of a legal battle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Florida also recently passed a policy which allowed volunteer religious chaplains to serve as student counselors. The ACLU has expressed\u00a0“grave concerns”<\/a>\u00a0over Florida’s policy but legal challenges have yet to be filed in that matter.<\/p>\n

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Jabin Botsford\/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Louisiana’s new law requiring all\u00a0public school classrooms\u00a0to display the Ten Commandments was temporarily blocked on Tuesday by a judge who called it “unconstitutional on its face and in all applications.” A multi-faith group of Louisiana families with children in public schools\u00a0sued\u00a0theRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}