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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 18 days
Eleven Commandments. Louisiana's law mandates a specific text. Not from Exodus, or Deuteronomy, but from the Fraternal Order of Eagles. They used a KJV-sounding pastiche adapted from the Bible and paraphrased by a Minnesota juvenile court judge in the 1950s. It's not the Bible. It's the Eagles.
Avatar Jack Jenkins @jackmjenkins.bsky.social · 18 days
So, even within Christianity, the Ten Commandments aren't precisely the same across traditions — the text is translated and even *numbered* differently. This law appears to mandate the KJV version — a Bible translation entire Christian traditions reject. apnews.com/article/loui...
The Ten Commandments must be displayed in Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into lawapnews.com Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. Republican Gov.
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@alexandergruchala.bsky.social · 18 days
This is the most American thing. Some private organization butchers some text (even gets the number wrong), it gets used to promote a movie, and then is used in the most rules lawyer-like way possible to argue a technicality.