A Louisiana law that would require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms has been delayed from going into effect after it was at least temporarily blocked by a federal judge.
In a Friday order, Louisiana Middle District Judge John deGravelles paused the controversial law after parents in five parishes sued the state over the legislation that was signed by Louisiana’s Republican Governor Jeff Landry in June.
According to the Barack Obama appointee, the parents and the state agreed to delay the posting of God’s laws until November 15 while the lawsuit plays out. Judge deGravelles’s order set a September 30 hearing date with the decision expected by mid-November.
Until then the Ten Commandments will not be displayed in East Baton Rouge, Livingston, Orleans, St. Tammany, and Vernon parish classrooms and Bayou State education officials can’t “promulgate advice, rules or regulations regarding proper implementation,” according to the order.
“If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses,” Gov. Landry said at the bill’s signing ceremony last month.
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The legislation required the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms on a “poster or framed document that is at least eleven inches by fourteen inches” and “printed in a large easily readable font.”
In response to the attempt to reintroduce morality into schools that have been turned into incubators of immorality and transgender indoctrination centers by the Godless left, the forces of darkness vowed to wage a holy war in the courts.
#BREAKING: The ACLU of Louisiana, alongside our partners at @ACLU, @americansunited, and @FFRF, is filing suit to challenge the new Ten Commandments law: https://t.co/PLPRiaImS1#lalege #lagov pic.twitter.com/GvUTVd5lcj
— ACLU of Louisiana (@ACLUofLouisiana) June 19, 2024
“We are eager to ensure that our family’s religious freedom rights are protected from day one of the upcoming school year. The Ten Commandments displays required under state law will create an unwelcoming and oppressive school environment for children, like ours, who don’t believe in the state’s official version of scripture,” Rev. Darcy Roake, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit said in a statement posted to the ACLU’s website.
The Louisiana law has one big fan in Republican nominee Donald J. Trump.
I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, AND MANY OTHER PLACES, FOR THAT MATTER. 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… pic.twitter.com/V3o4n05Rv8
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) June 21, 2024
“I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, AND MANY OTHER PLACES, FOR THAT MATTER. 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!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social last month.
Lester Duhé, the press secretary for Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murill denied the law has been blocked.
“The law is not ‘paused,’ ‘blocked,’ or ‘halted.’ At the district court’s request, the named defendants in Roake v. Brumley agreed to not take public-facing compliance measures until November 15 to allow sufficient time for briefing, oral argument, and a decision. Specifically, the five defendant school boards and the defendant individuals agreed not to post the Ten Commandments in public schools or promulgate related advice, rules, or regulations before November 15. But they and all other Louisiana schools remain subject to the law and its January 2025 compliance deadline. So once again – the law is not ‘paused,’ ‘blocked,’ or ‘halted,’” Duhé said in a statement.
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