Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry speaks with reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington in March 18. In a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court has rejected a law requiring the placement of the Ten Commandments in public schools.
It is worth revisiting because, on Wednesday, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed legislation that similarly mandates the placement of copies of the Ten Commandments in schoolrooms. At a signing ceremony, Landry suggested that the impetus was not boosting religion but, instead, bolstering the legal system.
The American National Election Studies survey is conducted around federal elections and has since 1948 included a question measuring religious identity. That allows us to see that the percentage of Americans who identify their religion as “other” — that is, not Protestant, Catholic or Jewish — was rising from the mid-1950s until the 1980decision upending Kentucky’s law. Among younger Americans, that increase was steeper.
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