Former President Donald Trump was thrilled about the idea of placing the Ten Commandments in both private and public school classrooms on Friday after Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, signed a piece of legislation into law earlier this week that would require them to be put on display in every public school classroom in the state.
And this is how we begin to win the culture war. The Law of God is eternal, true, and forever the moral standard engraved on the hearts of men. It’s an objective standard of right and wrong that reflects the character of God Himself. We being made in His image recognize that any society that is not founded on these laws will be morally corrupt, twisted, walking in darkness and deviance, and utterly unable to sustain itself.
Landry, speaking of the legislation, said, “If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start from the original law giver, which was Moses.” He then stated that the law would “help bring common sense back to our classrooms.” Without an explicit mentioning of Louisiana or its new law, Trump stated that putting the Ten Commandments up in the classroom, along with many other public places, would help lead to a “revival of religion” in our country.
And that’s probably true. Our Founding Fathers made it clear that liberty is for a morally upright people. Many of them agreed that the greatest foundation of morality was the Christian religion and the Bible, which of course includes the Ten Commandments. If we want to be able to drag the out-of-control, massively bloated government back into its proper place, we need to start taking steps to restore our culture to an objective standard of morality.
“I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, AND MANY OTHER PLACES, FOR THAT MATTER,” Trump said in a post written and published on Truth Social on Friday morning. “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.”
via The Daily Wire:
The new Louisiana law also requires a context statement to be displayed along with the Ten Commandments, which explains the Ten Commandment’s importance in American public education.
“Around the year 1688, The New England Primer became the first published American textbook and was the equivalent of a first grade reader. The New England Primer was used in public schools throughout the United States for more than one hundred fifty years to teach Americans to read and contained more than forty questions about the Ten Commandments,” the context statement states in its writing.
Critics of the Louisiana law, including the American Civil Liberties Union, quickly condemned it as “unconstitutional” and vowed to mount a legal challenge against the Republican-led state. Last week, however, Landry said he’s ready to be sued after signing the bill into law.
Louisiana Republican state Rep. Dodie Horton, who sponsored the bill, said the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms is necessary to fight back against the “junk” that children are being taught, The New York Times reported.
“Given all the junk our children are exposed to in classrooms today, it is imperative that we put the Ten Commandments back in a prominent position,” she went on to remark, adding, “It doesn’t preach a certain religion, but it definitely shows what a moral code we all should live by is.”
Let’s hope there are some positive results from this new law and that the idea is spread across the country.