Former President Donald Trump seemingly endorsed the idea of placing the Ten Commandments in both public and private schools on Friday aft...
Former President Donald Trump seemingly endorsed the idea of placing the Ten Commandments in both public and private schools on Friday after Louisiana Republican Governor Jeff Landry signed a bill into law earlier this week requiring them to be displayed in every public school classroom in that state.
Landry said of the legislation, “If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start from the original law giver, which was Moses.” He added that the law would “help bring common sense back to our classrooms.” Without specifically mentioning Louisiana or its new law, Trump said that the display of the Ten Commandments in schools “and many other places” would lead to the “revival of religion” in the U.S.
“I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, AND MANY OTHER PLACES, FOR THAT MATTER,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday morning. “READ IT — HOW CAN WE, AS A NATION, GO WRONG??? THIS MAY BE, IN FACT, THE FIRST MAJOR STEP IN THE REVIVAL OF RELIGION, WHICH IS DESPERATELY NEEDED, IN OUR COUNTRY. BRING BACK TTC!!! MAGA2024.”
The new Louisiana law also requires a context statement to be displayed along with the Ten Commandments, which explains the Ten Commandment’s importance in American public education.
“Around the year 1688, The New England Primer became the first published American textbook and was the equivalent of a first grade reader. The New England Primer was used in public schools throughout the United States for more than one hundred fifty years to teach Americans to read and contained more than forty questions about the Ten Commandments,” the context statement says in part.
Critics of the Louisiana law, including the American Civil Liberties Union, quickly condemned it as “unconstitutional” and vowed to mount a legal challenge against the Republican-led state. Last week, however, Landry said he’s ready to be sued after signing the bill into law.
Louisiana Republican state Rep. Dodie Horton, who sponsored the bill, said the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms is necessary to fight back against the “junk” that children are being taught, The New York Times reported.
“Given all the junk our children are exposed to in classrooms today, it is imperative that we put the Ten Commandments back in a prominent position,” she said, adding, “It doesn’t preach a certain religion, but it definitely shows what a moral code we all should live by is.”
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