Louisiana Requires All Public Classrooms to Display Ten Commandments

There is a long history of establishment clause cases that makes this very point.

To keep it simple, the first test in establishment cases is 1) does it (the law) have a secular purpose? Clearly, there is nothing secular about the commandments about religion.

A different decision was reached in a case in which the 10 Commandments was included in a historical display on the grounds of the Texas Capitol showing its past history. The commandments was only one display out of several.
Correct. There was another with a nativity scene that passed muster because it was in a commercial shopping area, albeit public property, and included other displays with Christmas trees and Santa Claus.

This LA stunt is entirely different.
 
Sorry sweetie, the Jews don't have magical ownership of the Ten Commandments
What an ignorant goyim

No surprise a slave for a failed messiah man god, learn Hebrew you mouth breather, then we can discuss Torah or what your ignorant yahoos call "the old testament'

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Correct. There was another with a nativity scene that passed muster because it was in a commercial shopping area, albeit public property, and included other displays with Christmas trees and Santa Claus.

This LA stunt is entirely different.
With a different Supreme Court which can always alter the guidelines used previously.
 
Correct, it does. And the amendment does not say religious precepts are not allowed to be displayed in schools
The Constitution is not specific. You didn’t learn that in your one room schoolhouse? Maybe more learnin’ and stuff and less fire and brimstone. You might havre known this.
 
Correct. There was another with a nativity scene that passed muster because it was in a commercial shopping area, albeit public property, and included other displays with Christmas trees and Santa Claus.

This LA stunt is entirely different.
One would think that a person who is a genuinely devout Christian would take offense at using sacred texts like this to score political points.
 
No, the First Amendment is about freedom of religious exercise. Nothing about the ten commandments in a classroom inhibits freedom of religious exercise
So you wouldn't mind if kids brought in pentagrams and worshipped Satan in the classroom since it's religious freedom?

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You people somehow get dumber every day.
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The 14th Amendment DID (effectively) change the word "Congress" in the 1A to "No state" in the 14A.
No, it didn't.
Read very slowly and shut the fuck up:
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"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
None of this changes the word "Congress" to "State" in the 1A.
Then, for funsies, see how that amendment passed in 1868 has been effectuated, treated, and interpreted since then. You are so inconceivably wrong that you may as well be saying that the sun rises in the west.
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How so? The govt is not establishing a religion by posting the 10 commandments
The establishment clause means much more than it cannot create an established religion. It means government must remain neutral and cannot act to help or hinder religion. The guidelines set down by the court include "the law must have a secular legislative purpose."

So, requiring a prayer, posting the 10 commandments, etc. has no secular purpose. It is clearly religious in nature.

"Today, what constitutes an "establishment of religion" is often governed under the three-part test set forth by the U.S. Supreme Court in Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971). Under the "Lemon" test, government can assist religion only if (1) the primary purpose of the assistance is secular, (2) the assistance must neither promote nor inhibit religion, and (3) there is no excessive entanglement between church and state."

This is the explanation established by the Supreme Court that has authority to interpret the Constitution.
 
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