Is Mandating Ten Commandments in schools Imbecilic?
Spoiler alert — the short answer is “yes”.
Here now is the longer answer that not only explains why, by not just having a pop at the ten commandments as a concept, but also digs into the flaws within the Act and highlights how the lawsuit filed yesterday to counter it is rather solid.
To begin, I would speculate that you are probably aware that from June 19, Louisiana has now become the first state in the country to require public schools to post a copy of the Ten Commandments in every classroom.
The Act that has now been signed into Law is HB71
Those who worded the act know how this game is played and have learned from previous attempts at doing stuff like this. The text of the Act has been written to ensure that the actual display is a specific size and the precise words in english are legally mandated. So yes, fun as it might be to have a poster in Hebrew, Arabic, or even Klingon, or a display using a very very tiny font that nobody can see, none of those would not be legal.
However ….
Yes indeed, spoiler alert, despite giving it a lot of very careful thought, they still managed to screw it up. I’ll save that detail for the end…
