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.
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...
> Not from Exodus, or Deuteronomy
Maybe that's so the GOP SCOTUS justices can ultimately say with a straight face that "The text is not a quote directly from the Bible therefore..." in their homily-laden, 6-3 winning ruling.
We go from "this isn't truly a machine gun" to "this isn't truly the Bible."
Yeah, my thought as I read this really interesting history was "DON'T GIVE EM ANY IDEAS."
I can imagine the GOP justices saying in private: libraries & public transportation aren't in the bible. In public they say also not in the constitution. So any federal funding of ANYTHING is in question. If they want to they go originalism - trains were created ~40 years after the constitution.
