Bill requiring Louisiana public schools to display the Ten Commandments passes House
Louisiana is one step closer to becoming the first state to require that public schools display the Ten Commandments in every classroom under a bill approved Wednesday by the state's House of Representatives.
Following a lengthy debate, lawmakers voted 82-19 in favor of House Bill 71. The bill’s author, Rep. Dodie Horton, R-Haughton, said the legislation honors the country’s religious origins.
“The Ten Commandments are the basis of all laws in Louisiana, and given all the junk our children are exposed to in classrooms today, it’s imperative that we put the Ten Commandments back in a prominent position,” she said.
https://www.nola.com/news/education/bill...51014.html
The Ten Commandments are the basis of all laws in Louisiana as much as The Code of Hammurabi is the basis of all laws in Louisiana.
Louisiana is one step closer to becoming the first state to require that public schools display the Ten Commandments in every classroom under a bill approved Wednesday by the state's House of Representatives.
Following a lengthy debate, lawmakers voted 82-19 in favor of House Bill 71. The bill’s author, Rep. Dodie Horton, R-Haughton, said the legislation honors the country’s religious origins.
“The Ten Commandments are the basis of all laws in Louisiana, and given all the junk our children are exposed to in classrooms today, it’s imperative that we put the Ten Commandments back in a prominent position,” she said.
https://www.nola.com/news/education/bill...51014.html
The Ten Commandments are the basis of all laws in Louisiana as much as The Code of Hammurabi is the basis of all laws in Louisiana.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"