Judge pushed enactment of law to display religious code until November in response to parents’ suit

A federal judge blocked Louisiana from posting the Ten Commandments in public schools until November after parents from five districts sued the state over the law.

In a brief ruling Friday, district court judge John deGravelles said that the parents and the state agreed that the Ten Commandments will not be posted in any public school classroom before 15 November. The state also agreed to not “promulgate advice, rules or regulations regarding proper implementation of the challenged statute”.

The state’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry, signed into law last month a bill that requires all classrooms, in K-12 public schools and colleges, to have Ten Commandments posters with “large, easily readable font”. The state is also requiring a four-paragraph “context statement” about how the commandments “were a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries”.

Soon after the bill was signed, a coalition of parents, supported by the American Civil Liberties Union and other civil rights groups, sued the state saying the bill violates the first amendment.

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    So you honest to God believe that the Boston Massacre isn’t an important event in American history? Just as the the French-Indian War which had it not occurred the Revolution wouldn’t have happenen?

    My supporting evidence only has served as a platform for you to hang your own argument off of. If you needed to go to Wikipedia to learn about the French-Indian War just now you’ve no place to qualify American History as solely that of the English.

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      Your opinions are irrelevant to the facts, which I have provided with sources. How you feel about that is also irrelevant.

      I’ve proven you wrong several times; now it’s time for you to get over yourself. Cherry picking and moving the goal posts or whatever other logical fallacies you wish to employ is not going to change that.