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Ten Commandments are important for children to learn from, not just see

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01.09.2024

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Earlier this summer, Republican Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed into law a requirement that all public classrooms display the Ten Commandments. Broadly similar laws are moving through legislatures and courts in a variety of other states – as they have at various points over the past 75 years. Especially as the school year begins, it is worth considering: Should the Ten Commandments be placed in every classroom?

A potential problem that some have raised concerns the "separation of church and state." First, that expression (or idea) is not used anywhere in the Constitution – which guarantees the right of everyone to practice the faith of their choosing, and forbids the state establishment of a particular faith.

It would be hard to seriously argue that the posting of the Ten Commandments is an expression of the state establishing Judaism (from whose sacred text, the Torah, they derive) as its official religion. Second, numerous Supreme Court decisions are very clear that a religiously derived symbol or teaching is permissible in a state function if it also serves a secular purpose.

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