Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/06/19/bible-brigade-marches-into-louisiana-classrooms-by-forcing-ten-commandments-into-classrooms.html
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It’s “not about religion” in the sense that Christianity is an integral part of “our” culture and therefore displaying the Ten Commandments is supposedly not a violation of the separation of church and state.
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They can do better:
I shall not cause harm to any vehicle nor the personal contents thereof, nor through inaction let the personal contents thereof come to harm ’ It’s what I call the Repo Code, kid!
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Fascist Brownshirts hate public education and love Fundamentalism
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Not just every school, but every classroom (of every public school at every grade, up including universities), and poster sized. Can you imagine the resources going into this? Not just the posters, but the legal fights. And the governor “can’t wait to be sued.”
They do argue that, but in this particular case, it’s dumber than that:
The measure allows for “our children to look up and see what God says is right and what he says is wrong,” Ms. Horton told colleagues. “It doesn’t preach a certain religion, but it definitely shows what a moral code we all should live by is.”
But also:
“If you want to respect the rule of law,” [the governor] said, “you’ve got to start from the original law giver, which was Moses.”
Even the current Supreme Court wouldn’t dare make such a reach.
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LA schools rank in the bottom 10. Let’s see if this changes anything.
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Which version of the commandments are they planning on using?
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Right wing attacks on education and privatization (which are, let’s face, two sides of the same coin) are part of why LA schools ARE at the bottom. So, no, this shit will not help, but will continue the slide.
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Doesn’t he mean the Code of Hammurabi?
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But that’s in the future.
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Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey. 
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Slacktivist Fred Clark wrote about this last month. TL;DR - it’s not any version that is found in any religious document although it superficially resembles the KJV.
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What the actual holy fuck?
They’re not even going to pick a 10 Commandments from a Bible or Talmud, they’re going to use some 12 commandment knock-off version from a group called FOE?
Is our universe having a writers’ strike?
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Speed, huh?
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The first 3 or 4 commandments are entirely about religion, unless there is a non-religious god and sabbath that no-one has told me about before.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
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Sure, they mention God, but those are things all kinds of people can agree with – Baptists, Evangelicals, Lutherans, even non-Christians like Jews and Catholics! So not religious at all. 
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Garbage.
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These days it’s hard to tell where things will land, but this gives me hope:
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