{"id":2283520,"date":"2024-06-25T18:34:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T22:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aclu-files-lawsuit-against-louisiana-law-requiring-ten-commandments-in-classrooms-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T18:37:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T22:37:41","slug":"aclu-files-lawsuit-against-louisiana-law-requiring-ten-commandments-in-classrooms-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aclu-files-lawsuit-against-louisiana-law-requiring-ten-commandments-in-classrooms-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU files lawsuit against Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faclu-files-lawsuit-against-louisiana-law-requiring-ten-commandments-in-classrooms-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2283520&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A coalition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/project-veritas-releases-footage-allegedly-showing-predawn-fbi-raid-on-its-journalist\/\" title=\"Project Veritas Releases Footage Allegedly Showing Predawn FBI Raid on Its Journalist\">civil liberties organizations<\/a>, including the ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State,\u200b and\u2062 the Freedom From Religion Foundation, has filed a lawsuit challenging\u2063 a new \u200bLouisiana law that mandates the \u200bdisplay of the Ten Commandments in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayor-orders-teachers-back-into-classrooms-union-vows-to-call-a-strike\/\" title=\"Chicago Mayor Orders Teachers Back Into Classrooms, Union Vows To Call A Strike\">public school classrooms<\/a>. The lawsuit was filed\u200d against the Louisiana state superintendent of education, Dr. Cade \u2062Brumley, among other state education officials. The law, which\u2064 was passed\u200b by a Republican-majority Louisiana state legislature and signed by \u2064Governor Jeff \u2064Landry, is contended by the plaintiffs to violate both the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause\u2064 of the First Amendment. Dr. Brumley defended the law, stating its\u200d importance as a &#8220;foundational document&#8221; of American government, while\u200b critics argue \u2064it alienates non-Abrahamic religions and infringes on\u2063 religious freedom.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/aclu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>left-wing civil liberties organizations<\/a> filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging a new Louisiana law requiring the display of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/first-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Ten Commandments<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>public school<\/a> classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation are behind the lawsuit, representing school students. The Ten Commandments law passed the Republican-controlled state legislature by a significant margin and was signed into law by Gov. Jeff Landry (R-LA) last week.<\/p>\n<p>The suit was filed against Dr. Cade Brumley, Louisiana state superintendent of education, and various state education officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ten Commandments law passed with overwhelming support in Louisiana\u2019s state legislature and was enthusiastically signed by our Governor,\u201d Brumley told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> in a statement. \u201cI look forward to implementing the law and defending Louisiana\u2019s sovereign interest to select classroom content fundamental to America\u2019s foundation.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit argues that the law violates both the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause in the First Amendment. The law mandates that all K-12 public school classrooms and state-funded universities display the Ten Commandments.<\/p>\n<p>While some opponents of the law claim the Ten Commandments exclude some non-Abrahamic religions, proponents say the Ten Commandments are not exclusively religious and are an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-school-district-reverses-course-after-refusing-to-distribute-pocket-copies-of-us-constitution\/\" title=\"Texas School District Changes Stance, Now Distributing Pocket Copies of US Constitution\">important historical text<\/a> as well, being that they are \u201cfoundational documents of our state and national government,\u201d according to the text of the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPermanently posting the Ten Commandments in every Louisiana public-school classroom, rendering them unavoidable, unconstitutionally pressures students into religious observance, veneration, and adoption of the state\u2019s favored religious scripture,\u201d the lawsuit said. \u201cIt also sends the harmful and religiously divisive message that students who do not subscribe to the Ten Commandments \u2026 do not belong in their own school community and should refrain from expressing any faith practices or beliefs that are not aligned with the state\u2019s religious preferences. And it substantially interferes with and burdens the right of parents to direct their children\u2019s religious education and upbringing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit argues that the specific version of the Ten Commandments that the law requires could be seen as exclusionary of Jews, which plaintiff-side parent Joshua Herlands argued, saying, \u201cPoliticians have absolutely no business forcing their religious beliefs on my kids or any kids, or attempting to indoctrinate them with what they think is the right version of a particular piece of religious text.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Herlands also argued in the lawsuit that the Ten Commandments are not gender inclusive and also endorse \u201cpersonal servitude\u201d because they use terms such as \u201cmanservant\u201d or \u201cmaidservant\u201d when directing people not to \u201ccovet thy neighbor\u2019s wife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laws similar to Louisiana\u2019s have been enacted and challenged before, such as a Kentucky law in 1980, where the Supreme Court decided there was no secular purpose to displaying the Ten Commandments. Again in 2005, the Supreme Court decided a display outside of Kentucky courthouses violated the Constitution. However, in the same year, the Supreme Court also decided that a Ten Commandments display outside the Texas state capitol in Austin did not violate the Establishment Clause.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition of civil liberties groups, including the ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation, filed a lawsuit against a Louisiana law mandating Ten Commandments displays in public schools, representing affected students<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":2283521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/jeff-landry-ten-commandments-louisiana-scaled-1024x657.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5196,4585,6100,32069,32076],"class_list":["post-2283520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-aclu","tag-lawsuit","tag-louisiana","tag-ten-commandments","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/jeff-landry-ten-commandments-louisiana-scaled-1024x657.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2283521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}