Governor of Louisianna Should Read his State's History


That pious Christian Governor of Louisianna needs to spend less time fretting about putting the Ten Commandments in public schools and more time calling out actual "sin." He could stroll down Bourbon Street and take note of the sin he sees.  

He could also read about the influence of the French on Louisianna and the freedom of religion that goes with that history. Christian governors sometimes get a little mixed up on history. For example, former Texas Governor "Ma" Ferguson is said to have declared about including Spanish in schools, "If the King's English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for the children of Texas."

Reasons to justify placing the Ten Commandments on public property and reasons that allow removal keep. We a group of us started our effort to remove the Ten Commandments from City Hall property started an acceptable reason for removal was the location. If they were being displayed in a prominent place or were the focus of the area, Federal Courts would order their removal. 

Then, the reasoning changed. It went from the formerly prominent display to a long period of complaints. If the complaints only started up recently, they did not count and the Ten Commandments could remain. Now, it seems like a slightly different justification is being used. The Louisianna Governor used the word "tradition" over and over. If Judeo/Christianity were the "traditional religions" then the Ten Commandments are merely illustrating this tradition.

This leaves out the fact that there have been citizens of other religions and no religion in the country ever since white people arrived. Before white people natives had other religions and other gods. Thus, justification has to first make an arbitrary ruling of when "tradition" started and then which parts of society practiced this particular tradition. Other parts of society that practiced other traditions, or, practiced their traditions at some other time in history do not fall under "tradition." 

It comes down to who has more power in the court system. If we could vote on displaying the Ten Commandments on public property, I'm guessing the majority would say no.  

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