
Bring Back The Ten Commandments? Not So Fast!
By DR. CHRISTOPHER MANION On June 19th, 2024, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed House Bill 71 into law mandating that the Ten Commandments be put on display in every classroom in the state’s public school classrooms by January 1, 2025. Of course, the Ten Commandments were universally displayed in locations public and private before the cultural left’s attack on America’s religious character that has raged since the mid-twentieth century. But the Decalogue departed from public schools years ago, and the American Civil Liberties Union wants to keep it that way. Just five days after Governor Landry signed HB 71, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the State of Louisiana in Federal District Court. The ACLU has followed this pattern literally hundreds of times in the past 75 years. The organization’s goal has been consistent: to reverse the Supreme Court’s 1892 unanimous decision which stated that “this is a religious nation” (Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States 143 US 457) and erase all traces