{"id":417,"date":"2024-06-24T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/?p=417"},"modified":"2024-07-04T13:49:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T13:49:59","slug":"civil-liberties-groups-file-lawsuit-against-louisiana-ten-commandments-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/24\/civil-liberties-groups-file-lawsuit-against-louisiana-ten-commandments-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil liberties groups file lawsuit against Louisiana Ten Commandments law"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A coalition of civil liberties groups on Monday filed a lawsuit against Louisiana after its governor last week signed a bill requiring<\/a> that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom starting in 2025.  <\/p>\n

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), its branch in Louisiana, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Freedom from Religion Foundation filed the suit on behalf of a multi-faith group of nine Louisiana families with children in public schools.  <\/p>\n

The lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana alleges the new law violates<\/a> the First Amendment and \u201csubstantially interferes with and burdens\u201d parents\u2019 rights to direct their children\u2019s religious upbringing.  <\/p>\n

The plaintiffs are made up of a group of Jewish, Christian, Unitarian Universalist and non-religious individuals.  <\/p>\n

\u201cIt also sends the harmful and religiously divisive message that students who do not subscribe to the Ten Commandments \u2014 or, more precisely, to the specific version of the Ten Commandments that H.B. 71 requires schools to display \u2014 do not belong in their own school community and should refrain from expressing any faith practices or beliefs that are not aligned with the state\u2019s religious preferences,\u201d the lawsuit reads.  <\/p>\n

The law requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed on easily readable posters in public school classrooms with three paragraphs about how the religious text have played an influential role in American history. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to respect the rule of law,\u201d Gov. Jeff Landry (R) said during his signing of the bill, \u201cyou\u2019ve got to start from the original law giver, which was Moses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Landry added at the time he “can\u2019t wait to be sued,” which the ACLU vowed to do<\/a> just hours after the bill was signed into law.  <\/p>\n

\u201cAs a nonreligious family, we oppose the government forcibly subjecting our child to a religious scripture that we don\u2019t believe in. The State of Louisiana should not direct a religious upbringing of our child and require students to observe the state\u2019s preferred religious doctrine in every classroom,\u201d said Jennifer Harding and Benjamin Owens, plaintiffs in the case.  <\/p>\n

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill (R) said her office “cannot comment on a lawsuit we haven’t seen.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems the ACLU only selectively cares about the First Amendment \u2014 it doesn\u2019t care when the Biden administration censors speech or arrests pro-life protesters, but apparently it will fight to prevent posters that discuss our own legal history,” Murrill said.<\/p>\n

\u2014Updated at 4:36 p.m.<\/em> ET<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A coalition of civil liberties groups on Monday filed a lawsuit against Louisiana after its governor last week signed a bill requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom starting in 2025.   The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), its branch in Louisiana, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}