Unconstitutional. Fucking shit hole state.
There needs to be a fine or something for legislators who write unconstitutional laws. Give ‘em one freebie a year just in case they mess up. But for everything else, there needs to be a consequence to fighting against democracy.
Last time this came up, the suggestion was for the “poster or framed document that is at least eleven inches by fourteen inches” where “[t]he text of the Ten Commandments shall be the central focus of the poster or framed document and shall be printed in a large, easily readable font” to be printed in Arabic.
HB 71 also specifies the exact language that must be printed on the classroom displays.
A clever teacher would have a class project on why such a display is unconstitutional and post students’ responses all around this display.
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I live in New Orleans, the part of the state that isn’t the Bible Belt. If you think you’re sick of the Bible Belt, imagine how we feel when they pass all these dumbfuck, unconstitutional laws and we have to dispose of them like when a cat brings you a dead mouse.
Aside: one related, if minor annoyance of living here (or South Florida, presumably) is being told I “live in a bubble” when I tell a conservative on social media to fuck off. I am surrounded by the biggest bubble of morons there is. If anything, I’m the prick that’ll pop it if it gets too close.
I hope The Satanic Temple comes in and forces a display of their tenets in every single classroom as well. The GOP is such a disgrace. It’s the first amendment FFS; and I know they’ve read it because they’re all crazy about the second one and won’t shut up about it.
Their tenets are lit. Awesome contrast to the ten commandments: https://thesatanictemple.com/blogs/the-satanic-temple-tenets/there-are-seven-fundamental-tenets
Seems complimentary with the other 10. Boil them down and you get from the 10, “be honest”, and from the 7, “be kind”.
If any are displayed, then both is better than one.
Really though, the book club from a 2,000 year old fantasy novel has no place in education other than its historic significance to the art of literature.
GTFOH with this garbage take.
The first 4 of the 10 Commandments are literally “God is the most important evar”
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You shall have no other gods before Me.
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You shall make no idols.
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You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
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Keep the Sabbath day holy.
The 7 tenets go way beyond just “be kind”, including but not limited to using science first and foremost, and that ones body is inviolable.
Not to mention the other problematic ones that actively discourage subtlety in favor of dogma. It’s not automatically wrong if you covet something. Additionally, your parents earn your honor and respect, they shouldn’t be granted it unconditionally.
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[…] has no place in education other than its historic significance to the art of literature.
I don’t think it belongs as art in literature. It’s garbage, jumbled, mad texts. I’d say it belongs in studies of mythology or the analysis of our frail human minds to accept such idiocy for so long and so deeply.
That would be a really positive outcome, their commandments are pretty good.
Mick Jagger was right, saying from the stage at the recent New Orleans Jazz Festival that Landry is trying to set the state back to the stone age.
There’s an old saying…Better to remain silent and let someone think you may be an idiot than speak and remove all doubt. Louisiana has spoken.
Rightism is mental degeneracy.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Republican state Rep. Dodie Horton has said the Ten Commandments are rooted in legal history and her bill would place a “moral code” in the classroom.
In defending the bill, supporters leaned on the 2022 US Supreme Court decision in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, which gave a high school football coach his job back after he was disciplined over a controversy involving prayer on the field.
The Supreme Court ruled that the coach’s prayers amounted to private speech, protected by the First Amendment, and could not be restricted by the school district.
The decision lowered the bar between church and state in an opinion that legal experts predicted would allow more religious expression in public spaces.
At the time, the court clarified that a government entity does not necessarily violate the establishment clause by permitting religious expression in public.
Many faith-based and civil-rights organizations oppose this measure because it violates students’ and families’ fundamental right to religious freedom,” the statement reads.
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