'I can't wait to be sued'

[Fritz]

" Apparently, in their version of the bible it's perfectly fine to covet your neighbor's ass."

hey, hey, hey, let's not be bringing facts into the bible.

[PeterB]

Whoops, I didn't see this post when I made mine, just above.

Worth noting that this was NOT the only thing he signed into law.

And yes, residents of my state (including myself of course!) will be paying to defend his dufus @ss.

[cbelt3]

To be true, it should only be posted in the original language.

[PeterB]

cbelt3 wrote:
To be true, it should only be posted in the original language.

But whose/which original language? There's disagreement even as to what the Ten Commandments are, and in what language they were written. And the precise version of the Commandments specified in this bill -- it is not clear from where it came, and so is therefore open to debate. (Oh, and while we're at it, when the Commandments mention "God", to which "God" is this referring? Is it Yahweh, the Christian God, Satan, or someone else?)

[pdq]

I always liked that apparently God made the first labor-friendly law with the six day work week.

‘Course, I imagine that didn’t apply to slaves.

[Janit]

pdq wrote:
I always liked that apparently God made the first labor-friendly law with the six day work week.

‘Course, I imagine that didn’t apply to slaves.

Indeed it did:

(DEUT. 5:12-15)

Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy, as the Eternal your God has commanded you.

Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Eternal your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your ox or your ass, or any of your cattle, or the stranger in your settlements, so that your male and female slave may rest as you do.

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the Eternal your God freed you from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the Eternal your God has commanded you to observe the sabbath day.

[Acer]

To avoid this confusion over translations and traditions, perhaps the State should Establish which Religion to use.

[dk62]

Is flag an engraven image?

[Fritz]

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/louisia...id=2337656&post_id=145816660&isFreemail=true&r=3juo0v&triedRedirect=true

[Ted King]

I read through a chunk of the text of the bill and what I saw was a lot of "our history" and "our culture". They have no problem at all with equating their very selective view of what "our" is with the actual collective sense of what "our" is. It's a conceit. It's entitlement. It's BS.

In the text of the bill:

B.(1) No later than January 1, 2025, each public school governing authority
12 shall display the Ten Commandments in each classroom in each school under its
13 jurisdiction. The nature of the display shall be determined by each governing
14 authority with a minimum requirement that the Ten Commandments shall be
15 displayed on a poster or framed document that is at least eleven inches by fourteen
16 inches. The text of the Ten Commandments shall be the central focus of the poster
17 or framed document and shall be printed in a large, easily readable font.
(2) The text shall read as follows:
19 "The Ten Commandments
20 I AM the LORD thy God.
21 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
22 Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven images.
23 Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain.
24 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
25 Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord
26 thy God giveth thee.
27 Thou shalt not kill.
28 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
29 Thou shalt not steal.
30 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
31 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house.

So no choice in wording.

In an earlier section, they provide this rationale for why this is Constitutional:

(3) In 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States further recognized that
2 the Ten Commandments "have historical significance as one of the foundations of
3 our legal system. . .", in American Legion v. American Humanists Association, 588
4 U.S. 29, 53 (2019) and, the court also ruled that the displaying of the Ten
5 Commandments on public property may have "multiple purposes" such as "historical
6 significance" and represent a "common cultural heritage". id, 588 U.S. at 54.

That Supreme Court language practically begs for Christian nationalists to try to wedge this as widen open as they can with this now even more Christian nationalist sympathetic Court. Uhg.