Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has defended the state’s mandate. Raise the Ten Commandments In the classroom, he explained that the United States was founded on “Judeo-Christian” principles.
“I, The Ten Commandments “Following the Ten Commandments is a bad way to live,” Landry told America Report on Friday. “I never knew it was such a vile thing to follow the Ten Commandments. I think it says a lot about how corrupted this country has become. This country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles and every time we deviate from that, the country gets in trouble. I mean, right now schools are basically treating kids like living creatures and bringing the Ten Commandments into school is a bad thing? It’s mind-blowing.”
The Republican governor has come under fire from liberal commentators for his state mandate that religious texts be displayed in public school classrooms. “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg said the mandate “deeply bothers me” because she grew up in a time when people were allowed to believe what they believed and it wasn’t debated with others.
“If you want your child to have a religious education, send them to a religious school. There’s nothing stopping you. Get out of my pocket, get out of my body, get out of my school,” she said, explaining that she has no problem with religion.
The Republican governor says the state believes in displaying historical documents, especially “something as important as the Ten Commandments.”
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Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry addresses House and Senate members on the first day of a special legislative session in the House of Representatives chamber of the State Capitol on February 19, 2024 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Hilary Shaynak/The Advocate via Associated Press, File)
“When the Supreme Court sits, they have the Ten Commandments up on the back of the doors of the Supreme Court,” he explained. “On the House floor, Moses is facing the speaker of the House. The speaker is the law maker. Most of our laws are based on the Ten Commandments. What’s the problem? That’s the part I don’t get.”
Landry argued that the idea of ”separation of church and state” has no place in the First Amendment. The new law doesn’t say schools have to buy them, but people can donate to them. The Ten Commandments It will be posted in the school.
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A six-foot-tall stone tablet of the Ten Commandments is photographed on the grounds of the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas, on February 28, 2005. On March 2, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether the granite monument and two similar displays in Kentucky courthouses constitute an unconstitutional establishment of religion by government. (Photo: Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images) (Getty Images)
“This is a trope that was instilled in the First Amendment by a liberal Supreme Court in the 1930s,” he told Fox News. “… Look at all of our documents. All of the founding documents of this country were based on Judeo-Christian principles. It’s inscribed on our money. It’s inscribed all over the Capitol. It’s inscribed on the Supreme Court. The people who want to rip it out of the foundation of this country are the ones who really want to create the chaos that will ultimately be the demise of this country.”
Fox News’ Hannah Panrec contributed to this report.
