Spend enough time listening to politicians, and eventually, one of them will tell you the truth. “I can’t wait to be sued,” Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry declared four days before signing a law last week mandating that all public school classrooms – from kindergarten to college – display a Protestant Christian version of the Ten […]
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) defended a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments be hung in the state’s classrooms, arguing to Steve Bannon that America needs morals. “We need morals back in our nation, back in our schools. If there’s anything we are going to present in front of our children, it’s going to be, it […]
Louisiana Republican State Rep. Lauren Ventrella rejected criticism on Thursday for co-authoring a bill that requires the Ten Commandments be displayed in public schools, and said anyone offended should just not look at them. “What do you say to the parents of students, or even teachers, who don’t share your religious views?” CNN host Boris […]
The Greek authorities are investigating whether wildfires that threatened to engulf Athens were sparked by a single arsonist. Civil protection minister Vassilis Kikilias said officials verified indications that the fire near Athens was the result of arson as well as extreme weather conditions. A fire service spokesman has said the force is struggling to deal […]
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO-TV) – State Senator Royce Duplessis, (D) New Orleans, calls Louisiana’s new Ten Commandments law unnecessary and embarrassing. And that’s just for starters. Duplessis, who voted against the bill that became law with Governor Jeff Landry’s signature on Wednesday (June 20), says the law is just the start of an effort by the […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has long been reliably red. The Bayou State has voted for the Republican candidate in every presidential election since 2000, with residents overwhelmingly supporting Donald Trump during the past two, and the GOP has held a majority in the statehouse for years. But policies in the state have veered […]
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 […]
Louisiana just passed a law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. The Supreme Court rejected a similar Kentucky law in 1980. But this isn’t 1980, and a law that flies in the face of the Constitution and precedent isn’t necessarily doomed if it reaches the high court. The American Civil Liberties […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A bill signed into law this week makes Louisiana the only state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every classroom in public schools and colleges — and stirs the long-running debate over the role of religion in government institutions. Under the new law, all public K-12 classrooms and […]
Louisiana has become the first state in the US to require the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. It is the latest move from a Republican-dominated legislature pushing a conservative agenda under a new governor. Republican Governor Jeff Landry signed the law into legislation on Wednesday requiring a poster-sized display of the […]
A Ten Commandments sculpture is on display in front of City Hall in Grand Junction, Colorado. (Michael Smith/Getty Images) Four civil liberties groups will sue the state of Louisiana after Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed a law Wednesday that calls for the Ten Commandments to be displayed in school classrooms. The new rule applies to […]
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry on Wednesday signed into law a bill that makes the state the only one in the country to require displaying the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom. The American Civil Liberties Union immediately announced it would sue to block the law, saying it violates the […]