Louisiana’s law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments is set to be debated in court on Thursday, and Republicans in Washington are rooting for it to prevail.
“I don’t think the Ten Commandments should ever have been removed from classrooms,” Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins told NOTUS. “Growing up, it was always there, it was part of like, civics, for generations, because it’s a formulative document of our civilized law.”
A federal appeals court will hear arguments on the new law, which the state legislature passed in June. The law would require every public classroom in the state to display a poster with the Ten Commandments, but it is currently blocked from taking effect due to a challenge by a multifaith group of public school parents and the American Civil Liberties Union.