The religious junta otherwise known as Louisiana’s legislature and governor can’t have meant what’s come of their 2024 decree to display the Ten Commandments in public-school classrooms.
After a delay due to a legal challenge, the Ten Commandments displays were installed recently at the 37,000-student state university where I work.
I visited 15 classrooms this week in seven buildings to see the displays. And let me say: our religious clerics should be embarrassed. Because these things – they’re 11-by-17-inch posters printed on lightweight paper – are amateurish.
Forget the content. The designs – there are two – present hundreds of words in addition to the commandments. Reading the posters requires more stamina than you’d need to carve the commandments on stone tablets.
And their installation? The definition of janky. The posters aren’t framed. They’ve been stuck to walls using transparent tape stretched over their corners and sides. Some hang at odd angles, some at odd heights.
Moses must be weeping.
Amateurish and janky have long defined Louisiana government. It’s no different today here at the Louisiana Bible University deep in the Theocracy of Louisiana.
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