Louisiana Pastor Trashes Ten Commandments Law: 'This Ain't It'

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A new law in the state requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom.

A Catholic priest in Louisiana has slammed a law that requires the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom in the state.'Look, I love Jesus & the scriptures but this ain't it,' Father Michael Alello, the pastor of St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Baton Rouge, wrote on X, formerly Twitter. Raise a glass to LA looking like a fool on the National stage.

'However, civil rights groups say the law is 'blatantly unconstitutional' and have vowed to fight it in court.The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU's Louisiana chapter, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation announced on Wednesday that they would file a lawsuit to challenge the law.'The law violates the separation of church and state and is blatantly unconstitutional,' the groups said in a joint statement.

 

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