Trump’s Disturbing Message on Lousiana’s Ten Commandments Law
Donald Trump has come out in support of forced religion.
The New Republic
By Hafiz Rashid
June 21, 2024Donald Trump is a big fan of the new Louisiana law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public classrooms.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee and convicted felon posted his approval early Friday morning on Truth Social in an all-caps post, noting “HOW CAN WE GO WRONG???”
Trump Truth Social post:I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, AND MANY OTHER PLACES, FOR THAT MATTER. READ IT—HOW CAN WE, AS A NATION, GO WRONG??? THIS MAY BE, IN FACT, THE FIRST MAJOR STEP IN THE REVIVAL OF RELIGION, WHICH IS DESPERATELY NEEDED, IN OUR COUNTRY. BRING BACK TTC!!! MAGA 2024The bill almost certainly will invite a lawsuit on First Amendment grounds, which would likely make its way to the Supreme Court, which, thanks to Trump, has a conservative majority. In past decades, however, the court has struck down similar bills.
They know that the courts will strike it down, so why did they pass the law? Did you see all the publicity that this got? And then when the courts rule that is unconstitutional, it will be those “Liberal Courts!”
And that is the scary part 64% gobble this up, he has them twisted around his little finger.
But Trump knows what he’s doing. This is a calculated effort to appease the Christian right, along with his attacks on abortion rights, which he tries to disguise but very clearly states to Christian audiences. Somehow, despite his philandering, lying, business fraud, and numerous other violations of the Ten Commandments, he continues to be thought of as a person of faith by 64 percent of Republicans.
The headline for the Independent says it all,
People wrote this...
Louisiana’s governor signed a law requiring a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom in the state, something I’m completely fine with as long as those posters say, in large font along the top: “The Ten Commandments, Most of Which Donald Trump Has Violated.”
That seems fair, and I would be comfortable with students of any age walking into a classroom and receiving a daily lesson on the meaning of hypocrisy.
The Republicans who pushed for this law, which makes Louisiana the only state to mandate Ten Commandments posters in schools, seem laser-focused on history and accuracy. They describe the commandments as “a historical document.” And after signing the legislation, Gov. Jeff Landry said: “If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start from the original law giver, which was Moses.”
Okey doke. Let’s go with that. Because respecting the rule of law matters. And if we’re respecting the rule of law, I’m sure Gov. Landry would agree it would be educational malfeasance not to inform Louisiana students that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and former president – a man Landry himself has enthusiastically endorsed – has broken a slew of the laws outlined on their classroom poster.
I like the part which says, "Most of Which Donald Trump Has Violated" maybe they can put check-mark next to the ones Trump broke, like "Thou shall not cheat" and "Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife" and "Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above."
Or as one commenter wrote, "Yeah, Trump like the Ten Commandments, because it is on his Bucket List to do all ten."
When I was in public elementary school (1952-1959) every Friday there was an assembly. The school principal sat on the state and read verses from the Old and New Testaments and led in the Lord's Prayer. There was a good percentage of the students who were Jewish. They felt totally left out and felt another religion was forced upon them. What of the non-believers or believers in other faith?
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