Louisiana is one step closer to becoming the first state to require all schools and colleges that receive public funding to display the Ten Commandments.
HB71 still needs the signature of Republican Governor Jeff Landry to become law, but it passed in the Louisiana Senate in a 30-8 vote last week and passed in the state House by a 79-16 vote on Tuesday.
If the governor does sign the bill into law, every Louisiana classroom from kindergarten to the university level, which receives state funding, will be required to display the commandments “on a poster or framed document that is at least eleven inches by fourteen inches.”
Louisiana State Rep. Dodie Horton (R) introduced the bill and said implementing the Ten Commandments is the “basis of all laws in Louisiana” and honors the country’s religious origins, according to The New Orleans Advocate.
“I hope and I pray that Louisiana is the first state to allow moral code to be placed back in the classrooms,” she said at the time. “Since I was in kindergarten (at a private school), it was always on the wall. I learned there was a God, and I knew to honor him and his laws.”
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