A group of families are working to block the new Louisiana law that mandates educators to display the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.
“Permanently posting the Ten Commandments in every Louisiana public-school classroom–rendering them unavoidable– unconstitutionally pressures students into religious observance, veneration, and adoption of the state’s favored religious scripture,” the“It also sends the harmful and religiously divisive message that students who do not subscribe to the Ten Commandments—or, more precisely, to the specific version of the Ten Commandments that H.B.
the justices ruled in a 5-4 majority that a Kentucky law requiring classrooms to display the Ten Commandments was unconstitutional. TheThe plaintiffs in the present-day lawsuit come from various backgrounds. Some are Jewish, Christian, Unitarian Universalist, and non-religious.
“This law is a disturbing abuse of power by state officials,” Heather L. Weaver, senior staff attorney for the ACLU’s Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief, said in aIn the same statement, Alanah Odoms, executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana, brought up the importance of the separation of church and state: “We must protect the individual right of students and families to choose their own faith or no faith at all.
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