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The ACLU has filed suit against the Ten Commandments law that required public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom that is set to take effect January 1st.. Plaintiffs include nine multi-faith families with children in public schools. Plaintiff, Reverend Jeff Sims, a Presbyterian pastor who has three children attending Louisiana public schools.
“My children are legally required to attend school and they are there to learn math, English, science, art but they are not there to be evangelized by the state into its chosen religion.”
Sims says the separation of church and state means that families get to decide if, when, and how their children are introduced to religion, not the state.
Plaintiff Joshua Harlands says as a parent, an American and a Jew he is appalled that the state lawmakers are forcing public schools to post a specific version of the Ten Commandments in every classroom.
“Politicians have absolutely no business forcing their religious beliefs on my kids or any kids or attempting to indoctrinate them with what they think it the right version of a particular piece of religious text.”
Harlands says the state is dividing children on religious lines and that the new law has no education benefit.
Republican U-S Senator Bill Cassidy says the Ten Commandments could help re-establish the nation’s moral code…
“Maybe it would be nice if everyday the student walked in and it was reinforced that tho shalt not steal, you shall not bear false witness, you should not commit adulty.
Attorney General Liz Murrill says ” We cannot comment on a lawsuit we haven’t seen. It seems the ACLU only selectively cares about the First Amendment. It doesn’t care when the Biden Administration censors speech or arrests pro-life protesters, but apparently it will fight to prevent posters that discuss our own legal history.”
The case was allotted to U.S. District Judge John deGravelle, who was nominated to the federal bench by former President Barack Obama.
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