{"id":6555,"date":"2024-06-26T20:59:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T01:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thereligioushistorynerd\/?p=6555"},"modified":"2024-06-27T07:36:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T12:36:08","slug":"whats-wrong-with-the-louisiana-ten-commandments-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thereligioushistorynerd\/2024\/06\/whats-wrong-with-the-louisiana-ten-commandments-law\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Wrong With the Louisiana Ten Commandments Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The Louisiana Ten Commandments bill<\/a> I wrote about last month has been signed into law and has become a major news story in the U.S. The Ten Commandments law mandates that the Ten Commandment will be prominently displayed in all Lousiana classrooms, public and private. It dictates the wording of the Commandments to be displayed, which appears to be a very abridged version of Exodus 20:1-17 from the King James Bible, with all the \u201cthees\u201d and \u201cthous\u201d intact but a lot of the text left out.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s wrong with the Louisiana Ten Commandments law? For one thing, it\u2019s an obvious attempt to do an end-run around the Constitution and use public schools to teach children a particular version of Christianity at the taxpayers\u2019 expense. For another thing, there are religious people, including Christian ministers and Jewish rabbis, who object to how the Ten Commandments are being used by the state of Louisiana. And these religious people would rather teach their children about religion themselves, and not have the state of Louisiana teach them, thanks very much.<\/p>\n

In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a nearly identical law in Kentucky<\/a> violated the establishment clause<\/a> of the First Amendment and was unconstitutional. The current Supreme Court has been demolishing much of the wall of separation of church and state<\/a> in its recent opinions, and the law\u2019s supporters seem certain the Court will reverse the 1980 opinion. We\u2019ll see. I understand several challenges to the Ten Commandments law have already been filed.<\/p>\n

The Ten Commandments: Religion or History?<\/h2>\n \ It is striking to me that the arguments being made by Louisiana lawmakers in 2024 are remarkably similar to those made by Kentucky lawmakers in 1980. Central to these arguments is that the Ten Commandments is an important historical<\/em> document, not just a religious one, and historical documents can be taught in school. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has been calling the Ten Commandments a historical<\/em> document in interviews.<\/p>\n \u201cLook, when the Supreme Court meets, the doors of the Supreme Court on the backside have the Ten Commandments. Moses faces the U.S. Speaker of the House in the House chamber. He is the original giver of law,\u201d Landry said in an\u00a0 interview by Lauren Irwin published in The Hill<\/em><\/a>. \u201cMost of our laws in this country are founded on the Ten Commandments, what\u2019s the big problem? And that\u2019s the part I don\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n The Ten Commandments is not the only \u201chistorical\u201d document that must be displayed. This is from the Louisiana Ten Commandments law<\/a>:<\/p>\n " To enact R.S. 17:2122 and 3996(B)(82), relative to public elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools; to provide for the display of certain historical documents; to provide for the display of the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, the Northwest Ordinance, and the Ten Commandments; to provide for displays in each classroom; to provide relative to the use of donations or the acceptance of donated displays for this purpose; to provide for applicability; to provide for legislative intent; to provide for historical context; to provide for an effective date; and to provide for related matters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Mayflower Compact<\/a>, Declaration of Independence<\/a>, and the Northwest Ordinance<\/a> were not randomly selected. Christian nationalists love these particular historical documents because they either mention God or, in the case of the Northwest Ordinance, argue for the importance of religion in government and education. The ultimate goal of Christian nationalists is to nullify the establishment clause and make Christianity the official religion of the United States.<\/p>\n Fake History Makes Bad Arguments<\/h2>\n*** ** So the Louisiana lawmakers are arguing that Moses is a significant historical figure, and the Ten Commandments is historically important to the origin of laws, so they should be taught in school. As historical facts, both claims are wrong.<\/p>\n ** ***Modern scholarship cannot confirm that Moses was a real person and not just a mythical character in a story. Even if Moses were real, he was not the original lawgiver. The Exodus\/Ten Commandments story traditionally is dated to about 1300 BCE. Some centuries earlier there was the law code of Hammurabi, who reigned in Babylon from 1792 to 1758 BCE. (Note that Hammurabi claimed his laws had been given to him by a god. Some scholars have suggested the story of Moses receiving the Commandments from God might have been inspired by Hammurabi\u2019s story.) And we have fragments of even older Mesopotamian law codes, including the laws of Urukagina, which date to the 24th century BCE.\u00a0 There was also the law code of of Ur-Nammu (ca. 2100\u20132050 BCE), which outlawed murder, theft, and most adultery, as does the Ten Commandments.<\/p>\n For more on why the Ten Commandments seriously are not<\/em> the basis of U.S. law, see my earlier post, \u201cThe Ten Commandments And The Origins Of Law<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n When Religion Isn\u2019t Religion<\/h2>\n Trying to sneak religious teachings and practices into U.S. classrooms by claiming they aren\u2019t really<\/em> religious is a time-honored tactic. For example, the attorneys representing the school district in\u00a0Abington School District v. Schempp<\/em><\/a> (1963) tried to argue that the Bible is not an inherently religious text. In that case, school children were being required to recite or listen to Bible verses every day, but the children were free to interpret<\/em> the Bible verses in a secular way if they wanted to, the lawyers said.<\/p>\n Likewise, in the 1980 Kentucky Ten Commandments case (Stone v. Graham<\/em>, 449 U.S. 39<\/a>), the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a Kentucky Supreme Court decision that claimed the Ten Commandments had a clear secular purpose.<\/p>\n " The Commonwealth insists that the statute in question serves a secular legislative purpose, observing that the legislature required the following notation in small print at the bottom of each display of the Ten Commandments:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe secular application of the Ten Commandments is clearly seen in its adoption as the fundamental legal code of Western Civilization and the Common Law of the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s unsigned ruling in Stone v. Graham<\/em> was later learned to have been written by Justice William Brennan. \u00a0Justice Brennan wrote<\/a>,<\/p>\n " \u201cThe pre-eminent purpose for posting the Ten Commandments on schoolroom walls is plainly religious in nature. The Ten Commandments are undeniably a sacred text in the Jewish and Christian faiths, and no legislative recitation of a supposed secular purpose can blind us to that fact. The Commandments do not confine themselves to arguably secular matters, such as honoring one\u2019s parents, killing or murder, adultery, stealing, false witness, and covetousness. See Exodus 20: 12-17; Deuteronomy 5: 16-21. Rather, the first part of the Commandments concerns the religious duties of believers: worshipping the Lord God alone, avoiding idolatry, not using the Lord\u2019s name in vain, and observing the Sabbath Day. See Exodus 20: 1-11; Deuteronomy 5: 6-15.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That\u2019s just as true for the Louisiana law as it was in Kentucky 44 years ago.<\/p>\n Objections from Religious People<\/h2>\n******* ** *******In late May a petition asking Gov. Landry to veto the bill was signed by 115 clergy and lay members representing Baptist, Catholic, Episcopal, Methodist and other denominations. From this petition:<\/p>\n " Different faith traditions treat the scripture in which the Ten Commandments appear differently. In attempting to reconcile and cobble together these varying interpretations, the text of the display mandated by H.B. 71 manages to produce a hodgepodge of holy scripture that includes twelve, not ten, commandments and fails to respect the beliefs of many Christians. Nor does this state-dictated language honor or reflect the beliefs of our Jewish brothers and sisters. Indeed, the state-approved version of the Ten Commandments set forth in H.B. 71 does not exist in any translation of the Bible. It is simply not possible to create a version of the Ten Commandments that honors every faith tradition\u2019s interpretation, and legislators\u2019 attempt to do so is deeply offensive to us as Christians.<\/p>\n******* ** *******The State of Louisiana has no business choosing an official version of the Ten Commandments, especially one that strips the text of its theological context. And the state certainly has no business mandating that this officially sanctioned version of the Ten Commandments be hung in every public school classroom, where teachers educate students who follow a broad array of Christian and non-Christian faith traditions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Twelve Commandment? The mandated text, which you can find in the law itself<\/a>, does not number the Commandments. But the way they are organized\u00a0 does make it appear there are twelve of them.<\/p>\n More Objections<\/h2>\n At least one Christian denomination, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship<\/a> (CBF), appears to be taking a stand to oppose the Louisiana law. The CBF is a denomination affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance<\/a> that has 1,800 churches and 750,000 members. A CBF ministry coordinator named Shane McNary helped organize the petition drive. \u201cAs faith leaders and as people of faith, it does not sit well with us to take Scripture and reduce it to the level of a mere historical document,\u201d McNary said<\/a>.<\/p>\n Laura Crigger, a Louisiana mother writing for The Forward<\/em>, a Jewish journal, objects to the law<\/a>. She writes that because she feels strongly about the importance of the Ten Commandments she sends her children to a Jewish day school to learn about it. She questions whether the Louisiana legislators appreciate the Ten Commandments. \u201cIn codifying a version of the Ten Commandments that is not from the Hebrew Bible, nor any recognized Christian translation, Louisiana lawmakers are haphazardly translating, to say the least, divine intent.\u201d<\/p>\n Nine families with children in Louisiana public schools have sued to stop the law from going into effect<\/a>. The familes are Unitarian Universalists, Presbyterian, Jewish, and nonreligious. The law, they say, \u201cunconstitutionally pressures students into religious observance, veneration, and adoption of the state\u2019s favored religious scripture.\u201d That\u2019s obviously true, no matter how much Louisiana lawmakers insist the law has a \u201csecular purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n ********* ** A Ten Commandments display outside the Texas state capitol building in Austin. 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