Speaking of bearing false witness

Louisiana has mandated posting the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.

"Louisiana classrooms now required by law to display the Ten Commandments," Stephanie Gallman Dianne Gallagher, CNN, June 19, 2024

Here's the law (PDF).

Donald Trump's reaction:

"'Has anyone read the ‘Thou shalt not steal’? I mean, has anybody read this incredible stuff? It’s just incredible,' Trump said at the gathering of the Faith & Freedom Coalition. 'They don’t want it to go up. It’s a crazy world.'

Trump a day earlier posted an endorsement of the new law on his social media network, saying: '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???'"

— "Trump Endorses Ten Commandments In Schools, Urges Evangelical Christians To Vote: Donald Trump has told a group of evangelicals that they 'cannot afford to sit on the sidelines' of the 2024 election, imploring them at one point to 'go and vote, Christians, please!'." Michelle L. Price and Ayanna Alexander, HuffPost, Jun 22, 2024

The reason that people who are secular or pluralistic don't think the Ten Commandments should be put up in public schools and other public buildings isn't that we think it should be legal to steal.

Speaking of bearing false witness.

Read more on Medium: Rep. Jamie Raskin’s book Unthinkable

"An initial review by The Texas Tribune of the proposed textbooks showed that religious references are featured prominently, with texts sourced from the Bible being the most heavily used." Texas is a really large textbook market which then sets the standard for those markets nationwide.

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— Nails Nathan (@chadstanton.bsky.social) Jun 27, 2024 at 6:38 PM

if you squint, you can see some of the last dying vestiges of principled bipartisan conservatism that used to be fairly common in oklahoma governance

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— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) Jun 25, 2024 at 11:01 AM

Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters issued this memo today requiring teachers in all schools to keep a Bible in their classroom and teach from it as a historical document. (Via KOCO 5 News)

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— David S. Bernstein (@dbernstein.bsky.social) Jun 27, 2024 at 12:54 PM