ACLU to Sue Louisiana for Requiring Ten Commandments in Public Schools

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Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed the law on June 19.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other groups are planning to sue Louisiana over a new law that requires public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

Louisiana House Bill 71, which became law on June 19, mandates that school districts must โ€œdisplay the Ten Commandments in each classroom in each school under its jurisdiction,โ€ by Jan. 1, 2025.

The law โ€œviolates the separation of church and state and is blatantly unconstitutional,โ€ the ACLU, the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation said in a joint statement.

The organizations pointed out that no other states require public schools to display the Ten Commandments, which is a list of directives from the Bible. They also highlighted a 1980 U.S. Supreme Court decision that found a Kentucky law requiring the commandments in every public school classroom โ€œhas no secular legislative purpose, and therefore is unconstitutional as violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.โ€

In that case, Stone v. Graham, the 5-4 majority said that the Bible could be used in certain classes like history but that posting religious texts on walls โ€œserves no such educational function.โ€

Louisiana legislators cite another 5-4 Supreme Court decision in the law. Issued in 2005 in the case of Van Orden v. Perry, the Supreme Court found that the Establishment Clause allowed the display of a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol.

โ€œThe placement of the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds is a far more passive use of those texts than was the case in Stone, where the text confronted elementary school students every day,โ€ the majority said in that ruling. It added later that the display in Texas โ€œhas a dual significance, partaking of both religion and government.โ€

By Zachary Stieber

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