When Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed a law last week requiring that the Ten Commandments be posted in every public classroom in the state, Trump wholeheartedly endorsed it.
Which presents the debate moderators with an opportunity to ask Trump to recite the commandments, and to tell the audience which of them he has obeyed.
“As late-night comics were quick to point out, Trump might get credit for number four, ‘Honor Your Father and Mother,’” says Press. “But that’s about it.”
Press writes that requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in public places is a violation of the First Amendment’s religious freedom clause prohibiting the creation of any state religion — as the Supreme Court has already ruled.
Landy doesn’t seem to care. Writes Press: “He knows that the law he signed has already been declared unconstitutional three times. But, as he told a Republican fundraising dinner four days after signing the bill, ‘I can’t wait to be sued.’”
“In other words, Louisiana’s Ten Commandments bill is not about kids or education. It’s about giving today’s ultra-conservative Supreme Court another opportunity to destroy the separation of church and state and advance the cause of Christian nationalism.”
“Meanwhile, there’s always the example of Donald Trump to remind us: What’s important about the Ten Commandments is not posting them but obeying them.”
Read the op-ed at TheHill.com.
