Louisiana may soon require public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments

By SARA CLINE
Associated Press

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana could soon become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. The legislation, which heads to the desk of conservative Gov. Jeff Landry, mandates that a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments be required in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities. Similar bills have been proposed in other reliably red statehouses — including Texas, Oklahoma and Utah. However, with threats of legal battles over the constitutionality of such measures, no state has had success in the bills becoming law. If signed into law in Louisiana, legal challenges are expected to follow.