Important Takeaways:

• Every public school classroom in Louisiana has been ordered to display a poster of the Ten Commandments
• The Republican-backed measure is the first of its kind in the US, and governs all classrooms up to university level. Governor Jeff Landry signed it off on Wednesday.
• The state law requires that a poster include the sacred text in “large, easily readable font” on a poster that is 11 inches by 14 inches (28cm by 35.5cm) and that the commandments be “the central focus” of the display.
• The commandments will also be shown alongside a four-paragraph “context statement” which will describe how the directives “were a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries”.
• The new law describes them as “foundational” to state and national governance. But opponents say the law breaks America’s separation of church and state.
• Similar laws have recently been proposed by other Republican-led states, including Texas, Oklahoma and Utah.

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