What do you think of the new Louisiana law that forces public schools to post the Ten Commandments?

in #liberty8 days ago

Like the law the state legislature passed last year requiring third party age verification to access pornographic websites this one isn’t enforceable. Act 440 isn’t enforceable because of the ubiquity of VPNs and proxy servers. Requiring the 10 commandments to be posted in every public classroom isn’t enforceable because SCOTUS literally struck down the exact same law in Kentucky four decades ago when Jeff Landry was in middle school. In Stone v. Graham, SCOTUS decided 5 to 4 that a Kentucky state law that required the posting of a copy of the Ten Commandments in each public school classroom violated the lemon test, a legal criteria courts of traditionally used to decide if a government action violates the establishment clause of 1A. The lemon test has 3 criteria that government actions must conform to to comply with the establishment clause of 1A. The government action must 1) Have a secular purpose, 2) not advance or inhibit any faith based belief in its primary effect 3) not promote an excessive entanglement with religion on the government’s part. Since the 10 commandments are exclusive to Abrahamic religions, especially the very first commandment, requiring it to be posted in public classrooms at taxpayer expense gives those religions a legally privilege position not afforded to say Eastern religions or non-belief for what is obviously not a secular purpose. This law will be DOA as soon as it is challenged in court.