Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. Republican Gov.

Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday.

The GOP-drafted legislation mandates that a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” be required in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities. Although the bill did not receive final approval from Landry, the time for gubernatorial action — to sign or veto the bill — has lapsed.

Opponents question the law’s constitutionality, warning that lawsuits are likely to follow. Proponents say the purpose of the measure is not solely religious, but that it has historical significance. In the law’s language, the Ten Commandments are described as “foundational documents of our state and national government.

  • mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de
    612·
    6 months ago

    They’ll probably publish the abridged version, sadly. The full version reads, as we well know:

    Thou shall not commit adultery but, if thou doest, thou shalt pay off the other woman so that it harmeth not thy chances in the presidential election. Nor shall it turn thy supporters against thee when they heareth of it.

    • frezik@midwest.social
      16·
      6 months ago

      Text is laid out in the law:

      https://legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379435

      The Ten Commandments
      I AM the LORD thy God.
      Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
      Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven images.
      Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain.
      Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
      Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
      Thou shalt not kill.
      Thou shalt not commit adultery.
      Thou shalt not steal.
      Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
      Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house.
      Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his cattle, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s

      And then there’s a context statement trying to pretend this is a foundational legal document of the United States.

      • Tryptaminev@lemm.ee
        8·
        6 months ago

        Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

        I take it shops in Loiusiana will be closed on Saturday from now on as well as everyone being forbidden form working?

      • DMBFFF@lemmy.world
        7·
        6 months ago

        Thou shalt not kill.

        no more capital punishment,

        and if one sins, God will punish one’s children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

      • maniclucky@lemmy.world
        4·
        6 months ago

        Been a minute since I read these. It’s so telling that the actual crimes start at 6, and move to thought crimes at 9. The rest is god fluffing itself.

      • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 months ago

        You forgot the most important line!

        “Thou shalt use these commandments as the foundation of law in a country called the United States of America in the year 1776 after killing my son”

        C’mon it’s so iconic

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        That excludes a lot from the biblical text.

        The “no working on the sabbath” thing continues on to list that you also can’t make servants work on the sabbath - which would include the poor verbally abused waffle house staff working the Sunday brunch shift when the after church crowd comes in…

        • frezik@midwest.social
          2·
          6 months ago

          Something something Jesus invalidated that part.

          Conviently forgetting that means Christianity explicitly does not consider these to be very important.

    • DMBFFF@lemmy.world
      13·
      6 months ago

      It should be in proper English: not these new interpretations—as if they could re-write the Bible—blasphemy! I say.

      ws:Bible (Tyndale)/Exodus#Chapter 20

      https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(Tyndale)/Exodus#Chapter_20

      1 And God spake all these wordes ad saide:

      2 I am the Lorde thy God, which haue brought the out of the londe of Egipte ad out of the house of bondage.

      3 Thou shalt haue none other goddes in my syght.

      4 Thou shalt make the no grauen ymage, nether any symilitude that is in heauen aboue, ether in the erth beneth, or in the water that ys beneth the erth.

      5 Se that thou nether bowe thy sylf vnto them nether serue them: for I the Lorde thy God, am a gelouse God, and viset the synne of the fathers vppon the childern vnto the third and fourth generacion of the that hate me:

      6 and yet shewe mercie vnto thousandes amonge them that loue me and kepe my commaundmentes.

      7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lorde thy God in vayne, for the Lord wil not holde him giltlesse that taketh his name in vayne.

      8 Remebre the Sabbath daye that thou sanctifie it.

      9 Sixe dayes mayst thou laboure ad do al that thou hast to doo:

      10 but the seuenth daye is the Sabbath of the Lorde thy God, in it thou shalt do no maner worke: nether thou nor thy sonne, nor thy doughter, nether thy manservaunte nor thy maydeservaunte, nether thy catell nether yet the straunger that is within thi gates

      11 For in sixe dayes the Lorde made both heauen and erth and the see and all that in them is and rested the seuenth daye: wherfore the Lorde blessed the Sabbath daye and halowed it.

      12 Honoure thy father ad thy mother, that thy dayes may be loge in the lode which the Lorde thy God geueth the.

      13 Thou shalt not kyll.

      14 Thou shalt not breake wedlocke.

      15 Thou shalt not steale.

      16 Thou shalt bere no false witnesse agest thy neghboure

      17 Thou shalt not couet thy neghbours housse: nether shalt couet thy neghbours wife, his maservaunte, his mayde, his oxe, his asse or oughte that is his.

      18 And all the people sawe the thunder ad the lyghteninge and the noyse of the horne, ad howe the mountayne smoked. And whe the people sawe it, they remoued ad stode a ferre of

        • threeganzi
          2·
          6 months ago

          The Bible was actually written in three different ancient languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. While a modern version of each of these languages is spoken today, most modern readers of those languages would have some difficulty with the ancient versions used in the biblical texts.

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