Trump Gets Behind Forced Religion in Late Night Rant: ‘I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS’

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Former President Donald Trump announced his ALL CAPS support for publicly posting the Ten Commandments in schools as the law goes into effect, mandating every classroom in Louisiana to do so.“We’re going to be seeing Gov. Landry in court,” said Rachel Laser, the president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

On Wednesday, Governor Jeff Landry signed legislation that requires the display of the Ten Commandments in every public classroom in the Bayou State. This makes it the only state with such a mandate and raises questions about the long-standing tenets of separation of church and state in the United States.

The New York Time s reports :

The measure in Louisiana requires that the commandments be displayed in each classroom of every public elementary, middle and high school, as well as public college classrooms. The posters must be no smaller than 11 by 14 inches and the commandments must be “the central focus of the poster” and “in a large, easily readable font.”

It will also include a three-paragraph statement asserting that the Ten Commandments were a “prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries.”

Trump has long curried the political favor of Christian conservatives and did precisely that in a 1:41 AM post on Truth Social, going ALL CAPS to appeal to those in favor of the Ten Commandments in public settings. Trump posted on social media:

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!!! MAGA2024

Trump has a long history of defying the core tenet of the separation of church and state or flouting his willful ignorance of it to appeal to Evangelical voters, even going so far as to call the coming election date “Christian Visibility Day.” He also sells Trump-branded bibles at his campaign rallies, and some of his most ardent supporters in Congress have even called for the end of the separation of Church and State.

Christianity, Islam, and Judaism each have their own Ten Commandments , though Louisiana law mandates the Christian version.

“We’re going to be seeing Gov. Landry in court,” said Rachel Laser, the president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, told AP . “We’re worried about public school families and students in Louisiana,” Laser said.

“They come from a variety of different traditions and backgrounds, different religious beliefs, nonreligious beliefs and students in those classrooms will be made to feel like outsiders when they see the government endorsing one set of narrow religious beliefs over others.”