Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò: “If you want to respect the rule of law,” [Governor Landry] said, “you’ve got to start from the original law giver, which was Moses.”

cool that so much normal stuff is happening www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/u...

Louisiana Requires Ten Commandments to Be Displayed in Every Public Classroomwww.nytimes.com A law signed by Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday makes the state the only one with such a mandate. Critics have vowed to mount a constitutional challenge.

"“I can’t wait to be sued,” Mr. Landry said on Saturday at a Republican fund-raiser in Nashville, according to The Tennessean. And on Wednesday, as he signed the measure, he argued that the Ten Commandments contained valuable lessons for students."

“If you want to respect the rule of law,” [Governor Landry] said, “you’ve got to start from the original law giver, which was Moses.”

Not even historically correct! The code of Hammurabi is right there and is just the earliest we’ve found!

Code of Ur-Nammu over here like "Hey!"

Pffft. Hamnurabi or bust! If we aren't teaching children to take flesh for flesh, what are we even teaching?!

If they won't commit to put several hundred pounds of basalt in each classroom, they are not really serious

Ahem. Ur-Nammu would like a word.

Joke's on them; there were 15 commandments.

that was just the warmup act. when He really got going, He found 603 more

The 613 Mitzvot (Commandments)www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-Semitism to Zionism.

But Louisiana's mandatory version of the Commandments comes from the Fraternal Order of Eagles and Cecil B. DeMille, not Moses www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt...

Louisiana will post the Twelve Commandments in schoolswww.patheos.com The 12 commandments mandated for Louisiana schools are not from the Bible. They're from a 1950s promotional campaign by the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

As I remember the Moses story he was a law transmitter, not a law giver; the laws were supposed to be coming direct from the almighty, via Moses. If Landry is making Moses a law giver instead, then a few thousand years of Abrahamic tradition are a scam. Also: other, older law givers are available.

And Moses, having one of those days, smashed one set of tablets, didn't he? Who knows what we're missing because of that? We may have been enforcing the wrong version of Pass Interference penalties all this time, and that's why everything's messed up.

Send that idiot this ad from Lincoln Project to play for the kids. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWGI...

Commandmentswww.youtube.com Donald Trump is a living affront to the Ten Commandments. The Lincoln Project is a leading pro-democracy organization in the United States — dedicated to the preservation, protection, and defense of democracy. Our fight against Trumpism is only beginning. We must combat these forces everywhere and at all times — our democracy depends on it. Don’t forget to like, share, and follow The Lincoln Project on social media below! DONATE TO THE LINCOLN PROJECT https://action.lincolnproject.us/donate JOIN OUR MAILING LIST https://action.lincolnproject.us/join FOLLOW LINCOLN PROJECT TWITTER: https://bit.ly/3zwZFva INSTAGRAM: https://bit.ly/31yyrHR FACEBOOK: https://bit.ly/3zCBHhT REDDIT: https://bit.ly/39PLnxi TIKTOK: https://bit.ly/3xHYRCY PODCAST: https://apple.co/3G7zr4L We can’t do our work without your support. Thank you.

Can't wait to see the New Orleans Satanic Temple's response to this

The guy never heard of Hammurabi

ahhh, originalism

He just wants to make peace with Osama: "You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire." (Osama bin Laden, Letter to the American People, 2002) No more laws made up by the people & their reps!

So, Donald Trump must be stoned to death for breaking…all of the commandments?

Oh you don’t wanna play that game Landry

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