Last week, a US district judge blocked a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be prominently displayed in public school classrooms. The good news is that a Fifth Circuit panel clarified that the ruling would only impact the 5 school districts involved in the lawsuit, leaving the other 68 districts free to post the Ten Commandments immediately. Louisiana is appealing the ruling to the Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals, which is one of the most conservative appeals courts in the nation.
Louisiana has also passed a law requiring the national motto In God We trust to be posted in each classroom. If this Ten Commandments law is upheld by the courts, hopefully it will spur our state to enact similar laws without fear of legal repercussions. More than ever, we need students to know, understand, and respect the values our nation was founded upon.
