Jeff Landry, the governor of Louisiana, has been stirring a hornets’ nest recently by promoting a law that mandates the Ten Commandments in that state’s public schools. Already the ACLU are suing to block the new bill on behalf of some parents.
Fox News reports on the controversy Gov. Landry has sparked. The governor said: “I didn't know that it was so vile to obey the Ten Commandments. I think that speaks volumes about how eroded this country has become. I mean, look, this country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles and every time we steer away from that, we have problems in our nation.”
Landry wondered why people object so much. He adds, “Most of our laws in this country are founded on the Ten Commandments. What's the big problem?”
A big part of the problem came when an activist Supreme Court turned away from all of American history to impose a new secularism. Included in this new “secular fundamentalism,” as Rabbi Daniel Lapin would call it, was the 1980 decision, StonAre the Ten Commandments Making a Comeback?e v. Graham, where the court said that the Ten Commandments should not be seen in public schools.
Here’s what they actually said in that case: “If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments are to have any effect at all, it will be to induce the schoolchildren to........