Courts: LGBT in School Fine, But Ten Commandments “Unconstitutional”
Even as the courts give their seal of approval to homosexual and gender-bending propaganda in government schools (as long as parents are allowed an “opt out” for their children), the same court system is claiming — falsely — that displays of the Ten Commandments in the classroom are “unconstitutional.” Yes, seriously. The implications are hard to overstate.
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court famously found that parents have a right — for now — to opt their children out of controversial sex indoctrination. In particular, to protect “religious liberty,” school boards must allow children to be excused from indoctrination sessions promoting Lesbianism, “Gayness,” Bisexuality, Transgenderism, Queerness, (LGBTQ) and other sexual and gender perversions (+).
But with the full blessing of courts and lawmakers, the tax-funded indoctrination of children into LGBTQ+ ideology as part of “compulsory education” will continue unabated. On the other hand, the same federal court system that protects that has been claiming for decades that the Bible and prayer are unconstitutional.
Following rulings against prayer and Bible readings, the high court’s first ruling against the Ten Commandments in education came in 1980. “Posting of religious texts on the wall serves no … educational function,” wrote far-left Justice William Brennan in the ruling, claiming the decalogue could only be taught as “history” or “comparative religion” alongside other “religious” texts.
The ruling got even more ridiculous from there. “If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments are to have any effect at all, it will be to induce the schoolchildren to read, meditate upon, perhaps to venerate and obey, the Commandments,” the ruling continued, sounding like a parody while implying that having children ponder objective morality and obey God’s moral laws would be a negative thing.
Ironically, Moses holding the Ten Commandments is literally pictured on the outside wall of the high court. And as any students of American education know well, the Bible was the primary textbook used for educating children for centuries before pagan and godless propaganda took its place over the last century — and long before child suicide, mass shootings, drug abuse, illiteracy, fake history, fake science, gender confusion, and other absurdities took over what passes for education.
The latest federal ruling against the Ten Commandments in school came on June 20 from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, widely considered one of the most conservative in the nation. The three-judge panel on the court affirmed a district court decision claiming a 2024 Louisiana law requiring the decalogue in classrooms was “facially unconstitutional.”
“H.B. 71 [the state law requiring a display of the Ten Commandments] is plainly unconstitutional. The district court did not err,” the U.S. appeals court said in its controversial decision. “H.B. 71’s minimum requirements provide sufficient details about how the Ten Commandments must be displayed. Plaintiffs have shown that those displays will cause an ‘irreparable” deprivation of their First Amendment rights.’”
In a statement cited by various media outlets, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said she and her office “strongly disagree” with the ruling. As such, she promptly filed an appeal with the full court asking it to review the decision of the three-judge panel. Murrill also vowed to go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, if necessary.
“The 5th Circuit’s panel decision in this case directly rejected the 5th Circuit’s own precedents and precedents from other circuits and the Supreme Court,” the state attorney general said after appealing. “This is exactly the sort of case that warrants full Court review, and we appreciate the Court’s careful consideration.”
The law in question, passed last year, calls for all government schools to display a legible copy of the Ten Commandments in a prominent location in each classroom. At the time, lawmakers said it was impossible to understand America, Western civilization, or history without the decalogue, as if those things should be needed to teach children about the moral laws of their Creator. Similar statutes have been passed in Texas, Arkansas, and other states.
Just last week, more lawsuits were filed in federal courts claiming the decalogue violates the Constitution. In Texas, a group of parents represented by high-powered lawyers filed a suit. “The government should govern; the Church should minister,” the lawsuit reads. “Anything else is a threat to the soul of both our democracy and our faith.”
One of the plaintiffs, a mother, claimed to be worried she will be “forced” to have “sensitive” discussions about topics such as adultery with her children. One example cited in the suit explains that this concerned mother “does not desire that her minor children to be instructed by their school about the biblical conception of adultery.”
The irony is hard to process. Conversations about adultery may be inappropriate with children, in the minds of these supposedly concerned parents and judges. But taxpayer-funded indoctrination about puberty blockers, sodomy, surgical mutilation of genitals, and other horrors are just fine.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott vowed to defend the law — and win. “Faith and freedom are the foundation of our nation,” the Republican chief executive argued on social media. “If anyone sues, we’ll win that battle.” Despite Abbott’s confidence, there is a good chance the courts will continue to rule against God’s laws, as they have for decades.
For the courts to claim posting the Ten Commandments in the classroom is “unconstitutional” shows just how ignorant and misinformed society has become. When the First Amendment prohibiting Congress from establishing a religion was written and ratified, many states had established churches. Virtually all schools taught the Bible. And society was far better off.
The Bible was the most cited course in the writings of the authors of the Constitution. And the primary legal scholar they cited, Sir William Blackstone, said the Bible is supreme over all human laws. In his famous Commentaries on the Laws of England, known as the “bedrock of American jurisprudence,” Blackstone said no laws contradicting God’s laws — as revealed in His Word — are to be considered valid.
Ironically, the Constitution itself was based on what key founding-era leaders such as Harvard President Samuel Langdon described as the “Republic of the Israelites.” More specifically, Langdon said the U.S. Constitution was modeled on the principles of government delivered by God to Moses and the Old Testament Hebrews. As such, he urged New Hampshire lawmakers to ratify it, and they complied.
Even more ironically, under the guise of enforcing the First Amendment in the early 1960s, the Supreme Court struck down prayer and Bible in local schools. What it did, though, was precisely what Congress was prohibited from doing in that amendment: it established a (false) religion by edict. “Refusal to permit religious exercises thus is seen, not as the realization of state neutrality, but rather as the establishment of a religion of secularism,” explained Justice Potter Stewart in his dissent (emphasis added).
Critics of the government school system argued that the recent rulings against the decalogue show that trying to restore morality through government schools is a hopeless endeavor. “It’s a fool’s errand to rely on public schools to hand down morality,” argued Michael Ryan, executive editor of the Christian education-focused news service The Lion.
“For one thing, God – the source of all morality – is no longer welcome in public schools,” continued Ryan. “They are perhaps the only place in the endless stretches of His creation where He’s not allowed to tread… It’s clear we won’t even begin to repair the moral rot, growing like black mold in the nation’s dank soul, through the public schools.”
“We’ll just have to look elsewhere,” he continued, calling on parents to pursue Christian education. “To God, of course. In church, naturally, but also in every aspect and avenue of our lives. We must also look to parents, who are children’s first teachers anyway. Parents must simply double down, triple down, quadruple down, on their teaching about God and morality.”
A nation in which rogue, godless courts bless homosexual and transgender indoctrination of children but ban the moral laws of the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth is heading for utter destruction. Government schools, with full backing from the courts, have become the single greatest danger to children in history. It is now up to parents and churches to rescue those children, before it’s too late.
Alex Newman is an award-winning international journalist, educator, author, and consultant who co-wrote the book “Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children.” He writes for diverse publications in the United States and abroad. Originally published at Liberty Sentinel.
