Ten Commandments Law Is Worse Than Worthless; It's Pandering

on Jun 22, 2024

U.S. News and World Report ranked Louisiana dead last among its 2024 list of best states. It came last in crime and corrections, second-to-last in natural environment, economy and infrastructure, 46th in education, and in the bottom 10 on all their other metrics.

A 2024 report by WalletHub put Louisiana as the 48th most educated state (in other words, only two states are lower) and 46th in quality of its school districts.

Great time for the governor to focus on wall decorations, right?

I mean, Landry could throw a dart at a board covered with 1,000 possible education initiatives, and 999 times he'd hit on a better idea than forcing schools to teach religion.

It's also profoundly ironic that the very people going wild at the thought of kids learning some men are married to men have no issue with teachers explaining adultery to kindergartners.

I've heard so much about all the allegedly obscene content to which public schools are subjecting children, however, I've yet to see an iota of evidence of it in my own kids' schools. So, if MAGAs want me to believe they truly just have a problem with sexualized content in schools, they're going to need to explain how teachers will define adultery without using the word "sex." And if you think the kids won't ask, that only proves you've never met a 7-year-old.

For his part, Donald Trump said he loves the Ten Commandments in schools, which is hilarious because 1. I'd bet my 401(k) he couldn't name them all and 2. We have direct evidence that he broke at least half of them.

I often wonder if Republicans will ever tire of the GOP pandering to their base's basest instincts, but then I realize it's been happening for 50 years and they're still totally fine with it.

The final step for GOP politicians is the inevitable grandstanding about the value of biblical morality while simultaneously sticking their hands into the pockets of naive donors who'll think they're paying for God's law to be defended in court.

"I can't wait to be sued," Landry said to a Republican fundraising crowd recently, according to reporting by The Tennessean.

Now, that I believe to be true.

Looks like Landry's read at least one of the commandments, anyway.

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