deehellcat: I just went googling and found this article about them--https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-biblical-laws-bleeding-your-schools Very interesting. Do you know if anyone has posted comparing this version to the LA one, to confirm the 2 are identical?

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.

These laws mostly follow a single template/model legislation that uses the KJV-ish but not KJV language promoted by the Fraternal Order of Eagles in conjunction with Cecil B. DeMille's movie promotion. It's an edited and paraphrased KJV pastiche written by a Minnesota juvenile court judge.

Louisiana is using the Eagles/DeMille version. Judge Ruegemer realized using a specific translation or numbering of the commandments could narrow the civil religious support he was seeking for the Eagles' campaign, so he rewrote them & printed it as a list of 11 or 12 unnumbered statements.

I just went googling and found this article about them--https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-biblical-laws-bleeding-your-schools Very interesting. Do you know if anyone has posted comparing this version to the LA one, to confirm the 2 are identical?

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