Louisiana Becomes First State To Require Ten Commandments In Public School Classrooms

A new law approved in Louisiana on Wednesday will require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in all classrooms beginning in 2025, according to the Associated Press, a move likely to draw immediate legal challenges.

Under the bill (HB71), all public schools in Louisiana must display the Ten Commandments beginning Jan. 1 in each classroom on a poster or framed document, which must be at least 11 by 14 inches, with the text of the Commandments displayed in a “large, easily readable font.”

Such posters must also include a four-paragraph “context statement” that says, among other things, that the Ten Commandments “were a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries.”