Posted on 06/20/2025 5:01:15 PM PDT by Racketeer
Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments be posted in all public school classrooms was ruled unconstitutional by a federal appeals court Friday, according to the ACLU, a plaintiff in the case.
Why it matters: The decision brings clarity to state schools after a confusing year in which state leaders and the courts have issued conflicting guidance on whether educators must abide by the law while the lawsuit was being resolved.
The latest: A panel of three judges in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, widely considered one of the nation's most conservative, called the law "plainly unconstitutional."
The ruling upholds a lower court's November 2024 decision. What they said: Pointing to a similar Kentucky case, Stone v. Graham, the judges said the posters bearing the Ten Commandments as described in the Louisiana law "will cause an 'irreparable' deprivation of [the plaintiffs'] First Amendment rights."
The other side: Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued a statement Friday saying she "strongly" disagrees with the decision.
"We will immediately seek relief from the full Fifth Circuit and, if necessary, the United States Supreme Court," she said.
“We could all use a major dose of humility.”
Yeah, when man thinks he can determine his sex it’s pretty bad.
If a smaller model of the Georgia Guidestones, with 10 laws of each of the major belief systems, I would not mind.
Yet we seem to think that “our” belief system”, is “the one”, and all the others are just firechat myths.What might you think, if “the other guys” consider your system as a “fireside myths”?
(I’m just putting the notion to you.)
I think that's covered under "Thou shalt not bear false witness".
So trannies are both liars and child molesters.
You state, “I send my child to a public school to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic (and a little science, too).” I think many who follow FR would call you a damned fool.
. Our greatest enemy is the mostly unconstitutional federal gov't and their unconstitutional acts, laws, and agencies.
NUKE THE 80%+, $3+ TRILLION UNCONSTITUTIONAL PORTION OF THE FEDERAL GOV'T AND NULLIFY, IGNORE, AND OVERTURN ITS UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTS, LAWS, AND COURT DECISIONS!!!!!
> I think many who follow FR would call you a damned fool. <
I don’t quite understand what you’re getting at. If you’re throwing out a veiled personal insult, it’s not helpful and is actually against FR rules. I pass on such posts.
But if you mean something else, I’d be interested in your thoughts.
I would say that you have a choice: Don't send them to public school, which has been widely shown to feature both. Judging from nationwide reports I've seen, in most locales the indoctrination tends to be 1) in favor of Democrats; and 2) against God.
That’d be the Aitken Bible of 1782:
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/vc006473.jpg
“Resolved, That the United States in Congress assembled, highly approve the pious and laudable undertaking of Mr. Aitken, as subservient to the interest of religion as well as the progress of the arts in this country, and being satisfied from the above report, of his care and accuracy in the execution of the work, they recommend this edition of the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States, and hereby authorize him to publish this recommendation in the manner he shall think proper.”
The Judiciary has become an establishment of religion.
That's why Islam needs to be identified as a plan of conquest under the guise of religion and should lose any privilege, considerations, special status and tax breaks it's proponents currently enjoy because of that lie.
I'd love to see the vote tally if that were put to the U.S. Congress.
> That’s why Islam needs to be identified as a plan of conquest under the guise of religion… <
Yes. You are most certainly correct. Unfortunately, George W. Bush set entirely the wrong tone right after 9/11. “Islam is peace.”
Islam is peace. That idea is now baked into western society. It will take much understanding, effort, and blood to remove it. I am not optimistic.
Print off copies of The Ten Commandments for any kid that wants them, and they can tape them inside of their lockers.
I guess the school can say that their ‘lockers’ are school property. BUT the kids’ PARENTS pay the TAXES that support the schools.
And around and around and around it goes! :(
P.S. Take it to The Supremes. I want to see what Miss Diana Ross has to say about all of this! ;)
I would be happy to see it used historically. I would never want anyone to treat it as truth since it isn’t everyone’s. That’s a private position for a family to make to their children. But those commandments that are universal for a civil society’s bindings, like thou shalt not kill, make for an informative classroom discussion on how that behavior is so recognized that it’s federal law and what would be the ramifications if it wasn’t federal law.
Has the worthless aclu ever championed an issue that was beneficial to the majority of Americans?
There’s a lot more than the Ten Commandments in my, Catholic, religion.
Seems to me that Commandments are a pretty good way to live our lives. DOING GOOD NOT BAD.
I don’t feel that that is promoting a religion.
I used to have a lot of FReepathon posts with info from the Library of Congress before they got rid of it but I lost it in a computer crash. There was one about Congress allocating money for the “Christianization” of an Indian tribe, I *think* it was the Delaware. Another was every man in the service during the Revolution had to attend Sunday services.
Odd, Louisiana’s law is “unconstitutional”, yet there’s nothing in the Constitution barring it.
And, Texas just passed a similar law, and they’re going to be posted (once again) in classrooms in Texas.
You’re probably thinking of the 1819 Civilization Fund Act (Indian Civilization Act), which allocated $10,000 for educating Indians, distributed to missionary societies that were already promoting Indian education. This became the prototype for the federally funded Carlisle Indian Industrial School, operating from 1879 to 1918, which in turn became the model for the federally funded Indian boarding school system that was popular from about 1890 to 1930.
As far as compulsory Sunday church attendance during the Revolutionary War, George Washington ordered this on June 28, 1777:
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https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-10-02-0136
General Orders
Head-Quarters, Middle-Brook, June 28th 1777.
Parole: Lancaster.Countersigns: London.
Ludlow.
The several regiments are to send for their tents, and pitch them where they are now posted.
Orderly serjeants to attend at Head-Quarters as usual.
All Chaplains are to perform divine service to morrow, and on every succeeding Sunday, with their respective brigades and regiments, where the situation will possibly admit of it: And the commanding officers of corps are to see that they attend; themselves, with officers of all ranks, setting the example. The Commander in Chief expects an exact compliance with this order, and that it be observed in future as an invariable rule of practice—And every neglect will be considered not only a breach of orders, but a disregard to decency, virtue and religion.1
not true...
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