Attorney General Jackley Joins Legal Brief in Support Of Ten Commandments Display in Public Schools
PIERRE, S.D. – South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley joins 17 other Attorneys General in supporting the state of Louisiana law that requires all K-12 schools and state-funded universities to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.
“The Ten Commandments already are displayed in the U.S. Supreme Court and other public buildings,” said Attorney General Jackley. “The Ten Commandments have influenced the creation of our nation and our rule of law.”
Louisiana’s State Legislature in 2024 passed, and the Governor signed, a bill requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in classrooms at all public K-12 schools and universities. A federal district court has blocked the law from taking effect.
The coalition of Attorneys General filed an amicus brief in late December supporting Louisiana’s appeal of the federal court’s decision. Other Attorney Generals who have signed the brief are from: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia.
The brief can be found here:
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Joy. More performative nonsense. This is what change and improvement looks like?
That’s all well and good, but we should find out whether it is constitutional before passing the proposed legislation South Dakota faces.
And remove the unfunded and excessive mandate of it being in each and every classroom.
Can we quit wasting our time on virtue signaling? This solves zero problems and is just an expense to appease the people who wish to force their beliefs on us. Kindly, get bent.
Don’t blame me, I didn’t vote for these whackadoodles.
Good job marty!
In some Civics classes, students learned that the freedom of religion that is expressed in the “free exercise clause” of the First Amendment is tempered by the “establishment clause” where citizens enjoy freedom from religion. Clearly, a number of the founders were aware of the origin story of the colonies where the new arrivals wanted freedom from the Church of England, among other things. While the system of laws can be modeled from English Common Law and the Judeo-Christian Ethic, that doesn’t mean that a particular belief system should be forced in the public schools.
Several years ago, the South Dakota Legislature considered bills rejecting or decreeing that Sharia Law could not be practiced (if memory serves). Aside from dffering beliefs (Islam and Christianity), how is mandating that a specific belief be imposed in public schools that much different? It’s state-imposed and there are penalties imposed for non-compliance. Sure, the severity may differ, but now the discussion is over the degree of penalty and not the fact that each mandates compliance.
Any law student knows (and AG Jackley obviously knows this) that Louisiana is largely a back water when it comes to their legal system. Hard to think that anyone would use it as a model to aspire to or support in an amicus brief. Of course, if you are politically motivated and not about to let some would be candidate our flank you on the right, you might as well flush out the fundamentals.
The commandments wouldn’t be mandated, rather simply represented.
If other groups want their values equally represented, they need to understand how and why a teacher is allowed to represent one view (pride flag) and not another (ten commandments).
Here’s an idea to try-on ..
Let the teachers decide. The teacher should have full control of the classroom within legal limits. If the teacher uses the Ten Commandments as a teaching aid and gets results, fine.
This is why I prefer fully funded family education (also known as home school) as my “school choice” for our children.
Mr. Jackley, ACLU is on Line 1.
Tell them I’m not interested.
I have zero issues with the display of the Ten Commandments in the classroom. I happen to really love 7 of them. Which 7? I’ll never tell.
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But seriously – if we have a legitimate educational choice bill that allows the non-religious to claim their DOE bucks and spend them however they want, it just .. doesn’t .. matter.
I’m all for teaching morality, ethics, accounting, and law in our schools in conjunction with semiconductor manufacturing, software engineering, and math. Things that are not subject to objective standards, however, should not harbor the same weight as things that are. This is what makes education difficult. Its difficult was severely underestimated by the people who thought they could create a singular centralized monolithic education system for everybody.
All we did was create an economy of scale that used kids like financial building blocks (the have nots) to lower cost for the sons and daughters of elitists (the haves).
Once again: you believe in nonsense and shouldn’t be weighing in on educating anyone save maybe teaching dogs how to sit, so long as you don’t tell them chemtrails will kill them if they don’t.
Put up or shut up anon.
Once you sign your name, then I’ll consider your ideas more closely.
Until then, you’re just kind of a cowardly loser who won’t stand by her words.
You assume that post was by a woman. Huh.
It’s time to stand up for true principles! If we’re going to allow representations of one religious text, then ALL beliefs deserve equal visibility—be it the Quran, Buddhist teachings, or any other faith. What we are witnessing is not true Christianity; this is Christian Nationalism masquerading as faith. Let’s put an end to this divisive dogma and stop squandering taxpayer dollars on this misguided agenda.
There are certain things an AG should not sign onto, sponsor, or support, and this is one of them. As long as another AG, that is republican, supports it Marty will be there with pen in hand to sign on (up). He, of all people should understand the US Constitution. I cannot even imagine him as Governor with his unknowing principles. Of course he has signed and supported other garbage that never gained traction, and he will continue to do it just for the sake of a news story and/ or a name credit. If you throw enough garbage at the wall something is bound to stick. Maybe that is what the AG is doing, looking for something to stick for a campaign issue in the next election cycle.
Political grandstanding to appease the farthest right for the next gubernatorial election. Transparent and not a good look but one I’m sure he feels is necessary.
This is opening a can of worms that we don’t want opened. Under the 14th Amendments equal protection clause, the government cannot discriminate based on religion. If the 10 commandments are allowed to be in public schools, then the government will have to allow all religions the same treatment. Do we want passages from the Quran in every classroom? Do we want the satanic start draped across the windows? And all it takes is a handful of people starting their own “trans-religion” and then guess we will be forced to allow in schools.
My children know the 10 commandments. We send them to Sunday school to learn about the Bible. We regularly have conversations regarding the Bible, Jesus, and living a Christian life. We pray before every meal and before bed. It is my role as a parent to lead them on the path of Christ, not the Governments.
A Ouija board in every classroom to summon the spirits for Q and A.
A great classroom lesson that Ouija board predates Ask Jeeves, Ask Alexis or today’s AI. If the power goes out kids can still use the Ouija board.
When Mr. Jackley puts his god in grudznick’s schools, grudznick might just put those Witch Goddesses in Mr. Jackley’s government. You might see the Wiccan creed required as an uttering by the legislatures each day at noon. And then the daily east-facing floor mat exercises by those other religions. I’m just sayin…