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Louisiana orders Ten Commandments poster in every classroom (www.bbc.com)

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The posters must be on display in all classrooms receiving state funding by 2025 - but no state funding is being offered to pay for the posters themselves.

Similar laws have recently been proposed by other Republican-led states, including Texas, Oklahoma and Utah.

Four civil liberties groups have confirmed that they plan a legal challenge, highlighting the religious diversity of Louisiana's schools.

The law was "blatantly unconstitutional", said a joint statement from the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

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Louisiana orders Ten Commandments poster in every classroom (www.bbc.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Louisiana has become the first US state to order that every public school classroom up to university level must display a poster of the Ten Commandments.

The Republican-backed measure signed into law by Governor Jeff Landry on Wednesday describes the commandments as "the foundational documents of our state and national government".

The law is expected to be challenged by civil rights groups, which argue that it contravenes the separation between church and state enshrined in the first amendment to the US Constitution, the so-called Establishment Clause.