Here are 9 outrageous facts about Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law
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Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed a bill requiring every public school classroom to display the Ten Commandments after bragging that he “can’t wait to be sued” for this outrageous assault on ...

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  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’d only heard about the 10C portion of the bill, but the rest of it is equally or more bonkers than that.

    1. THE BILL CALLS THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT “AMERICA’S FIRST WRITTEN CONSTITUTION”

    …Louisiana legislators do not mention that this document was prepared for the local governance of a few hundred religious extremists as a giant FU to civil authority, or that the compact was written before any of them had even set a Pilgrim foot on North America.

    Maybe we should do what England did and set these religious nutters adrift and hope for the best.