This law weaponizes religion, transforming it from a pathway to meaning and compassion into a cudgel that forces people to fall in lockstep.
A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted along with other historical documents in a hallway at the Georgia State Capitol Building Thursday, June 20, 2024, in Atlanta. Louisiana has become the first state in the country to require that the 10 Commandments be displayed in all public schoools. that will require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms.
Other commandments on the list are more problematic: “You shall have no other gods before me” would represent state-sponsored exclusion of any other religion. “You shall not take the name of the Lord in vain” is an obvious act of state-sponsored limitation of freedom of expression. And these posters will lead to lots of kindergarteners asking what “adultery” means.
Similarly, the law chooses the King James Version, which is but one option of many English-version Bibles. Not only that, but it edits the passage, removing large sections. Any educated preacher will tell you that by omitting words, you can change the meaning of a passage.
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