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The Louisiana lawmaker behind the radical new law requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in public school classrooms across her state is no stranger to the culture wars. State Rep. Dodie Horton, a Republican from Haughton, Louisiana, is also one of the prime movers behind her state’s bill prohibiting teachers from discussing gender identity or sexual orientation from kindergarten to 12th grade.
The daughter of a Shreveport, Louisiana, police officer, Horton is a 67-year-old married mother of three and grandmother of four whose heavily Protestant district in northwestern Louisiana is geographically and religiously closer to Dallas than New Orleans, which is in the strongly Catholic southern part of the state.
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