The Louisiana Ten Commandments Law Will Harm Children

The Real-Life Consequences of Religion in Schools

Laura Jedeed
4 min readJun 21, 2024

Louisiana has recently passed a law requiring that the Ten Commandments hang in every classroom. This will likely go all the way to the Supreme Court, at which point we will learn just what manner of judiciary we have.

It sounds like such a small thing. Like a trial balloon for bigger things, larger violations of religious freedom. This is true in a general sense, but the law will not be a small thing for some of the children in…

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Laura Jedeed

Freelance journalist, filthy pleb. Politics mostly. Find my work at NYMag, Politico, Rolling Stone, New Republic, and https://bannedinyourstate.com