Governor Jeff Landry spoke with Jim Engster on Talk Louisiana about the pushback against the passage of the Ten Commandments Law which requires all state-funded schools and universities to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. The law is set to go into effect on January 1st. Landry signed the controversial measure into law last month.
“You can call me naive, but I never believed that would be such a contentious or such a hot topic if you would.”
The law is facing litigation from several families and advocacy groups, who say it violates the separation of church and state.
But Landry argues that the Ten Commandments are the foundation for our rule of law and they are woven into the fabric of America’s laws…
“The fact that its such a bid deal questions whether or not those people actually believe in America.”
The Ten Commandments law has been widely shunned by civil liberty groups and faith leaders as being a gross infringement on the rights of students and a violation of the separation of church and state under the Constitution. Landry disagrees with the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the law..
” I really think the Supreme Court got it wrong. I think the Founders got it right when they wrote the Constitution and when they wrote the Bill of Rights. I think the Supreme Court breathed life into the separation of church and state which was never defined in the First Amendment.”
Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill support the new law, and Murrill says she is looking forward to defending it. A hearing in a federal courtroom is scheduled for September 30th.
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