ATLANTA -- Last week, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed a bill that orders every public-school classroom and state-funded university in the state of Louisiana to display a poster of the Ten Commandments. The new law requires that the poster — which must be 11 inches by 14 inches — include the text in “large, easily readable font,” and the Commandments must be “the central focus” of the display. Additionally, the Commandments must be shown alongside a four-paragraph “context statement” which will describe how they “were a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries.”
As you could guess, the new law’s proponents consider themselves to be doing the Lord’s work in this Earthly realm. The bill’s author, State Rep. Dodie Horton, said that the goal of the law was so that “our students could look up and see that there is a moral standard that God set forth for man to live by….” At the signing, Gov. Landry said, “If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses.”