The battle over Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law is over the future of church-state separation

JL;DR SUMMARY Louisiana's governor, Jeff Landry, recently signed a law mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms by 2025, prompting a lawsuit from the ACLU, including Jewish families, citing a violation of the First Amendment's separation of church and state. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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