Republican Governor Jeff Landry signed HB71 into law on Wednesday after it passed in the Louisiana Senate in a 30-8 vote and then passed in the state House by a 79-16 vote last month.

The American Civil Liberties Union vows to challenge the law, and the case could go to the US Supreme Court.

If the law survives legal challenges, every Louisiana classroom from kindergarten to the university level, which receives state funding, will be required to display the commandments "on a poster or framed document that is at least eleven inches by fourteen inches." The commandments displays would be paid for by private donations so the state isn't funding them.

Louisiana State Rep. Dodie Horton (R) introduced the bill and said implementing the Ten Commandments is the "basis of all laws in Louisiana" and honors the country's religious origins, according to The New Orleans Advocate. 

"I hope and I pray that Louisiana is the first state to allow moral code to be placed back in the classrooms," she said. "Since I was in kindergarten (at a private school), it was always on the wall. I learned there was a God, and I knew to honor Him and His laws."

All the "no" votes to the bill came from Democrats. "I didn't have to learn the Ten Commandments in school. We went to Sunday school," said Sen. Royce Duplessis (D-New Orleans) who identifies as a practicing Catholic. "You want your kids to learn about the Ten Commandments, take them to church."

Duplessis also doesn't want to deal with the legal challenges. "We're going to spend valuable state resources defending the law when we really need to be teaching our kids how to read and write," he said. "I don't think this is appropriate for us to mandate."

The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Louisiana, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and the Southern Poverty Law Center have released a statement calling the mandate unconstitutional. "Our public schools are not Sunday schools," it reads, "and students of all faiths—or no faith— should feel welcome in them."

Texas, South Carolina, and Utah have recently attempted to approve similar legislation, according to a Higher Ed Dive report.

In March, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed an amended bill that allowed the Ten Commandments to be studied in school. An initial version of the bill required the Ten Commandments to be posted in public schools.

A similar bill requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments was introduced in the Oklahoma Legislature in February but has since stalled.

Last year, South Carolina and Texas also failed to pass similar measures.

The US Supreme Court ruled in 1980 that a Kentucky law requiring all public schools to post the Ten Commandments in each classroom was unconstitutional. In Stone v. Graham, the justices ruled 5-4 that the law violated the First Amendment's establishment clause and was "plainly religious in nature." Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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