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The states pushing legislation to display the Ten Commandments in public schools are all but guaranteed to end up at the Supreme Court.
Lawmakers across the country are following Louisiana’s lead with legislation calling for the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools. Elected officials from Texas to Pennsylvania seem undeterred by the fact that Louisiana’s law, passed last year, never went into effect. I’m guessing they know it is only a matter of time before Louisiana is victorious in defense of the law’s constitutionality in court.
In my work with legal historian Professor Mark David Hall, we’ve shown that despite a widespread misunderstanding of the role of Christianity in our founding and decades of bad Supreme Court rulings, such displays are constitutional — a lesson the ACLU and others who challenged the Louisiana law are likely to learn soon.
While the founders were uniformly opposed to government imposing religion, they did think religion, especially Christianity, was extremely important to the founding of the country. They understood that humans are created in the image of God and instilled with dignity. And if people have dignity, they must have rights to protect that dignity. This is the religious inspiration for the huge number of rights enumerated for all citizens at the founding of the republic.
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thefederalist.com
Lawmakers across the country are following Louisiana’s lead with legislation calling for the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools. Elected officials from Texas to Pennsylvania seem undeterred by the fact that Louisiana’s law, passed last year, never went into effect. I’m guessing they know it is only a matter of time before Louisiana is victorious in defense of the law’s constitutionality in court.
In my work with legal historian Professor Mark David Hall, we’ve shown that despite a widespread misunderstanding of the role of Christianity in our founding and decades of bad Supreme Court rulings, such displays are constitutional — a lesson the ACLU and others who challenged the Louisiana law are likely to learn soon.
While the founders were uniformly opposed to government imposing religion, they did think religion, especially Christianity, was extremely important to the founding of the country. They understood that humans are created in the image of God and instilled with dignity. And if people have dignity, they must have rights to protect that dignity. This is the religious inspiration for the huge number of rights enumerated for all citizens at the founding of the republic.
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Yes, It's Constitutional For The Government To Promote Christianity
The states pushing legislation to display the Ten Commandments in public schools are all but guaranteed to end up at the Supreme Court.
thefederalist.com
