On Monday, June 26, 2024, Louisiana was sued over a new law that requires the display of the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms in the state.

The complaint said displaying the Ten Commandments violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and “simply cannot be reconciled with the fundamental religious-freedom principles that animated the founding of our nation.”

Nine families, including several clergy, with children in public schools filed the lawsuit in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana federal court, seeking an injunction against the law.

According to Reuters, Louisiana became the only U.S. state requiring displays of the Ten Commandments when Governor Jeff Landry, a Republican, signed the law on June 19.

The law is also part of a broader push by conservative groups to make expressions of faith a more prominent part in society.

Some hope that such laws, when challenged in court, could eventually receive a friendly welcome at the U.S. Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority.

In signing the Louisiana law, Landry said displaying the Ten Commandments would help expand faith in public schools.

“If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start from the original law-giver, which was Moses,” he said.

The plaintiffs said the law violates the First Amendment’s prohibition against state establishment of religion.

They also said the law violates the First Amendment’s free exercise clause by pressuring parents and children to accept the state’s favored religious message.

“It is our children’s right” to decide what views to accept, plaintiff Darcy Roake, a minister in the Unitarian Universalist Church whose husband is Jewish and also a plaintiff, said on a conference call with reporters.

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