Governor Jeff Landry’s signing of the law requiring Louisiana public school classrooms to display the text of the Ten Commandments once again brings together a volatile combination: religion and schools. It’s already generating a collective meltdown on the Left.
Contrary to the simplistic way the mainstream press will likely feature the problem (“Is there ‘separation of church and state’ or not?”) a critical observer will find multiple layers of issues among the questions the new law poses.
They can be grouped into three big clusters: law and religion, the nature of public schools, and assumptions about morality.
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