It's Tuesday, May 21st, 2024.

Out of nowhere, a couple of items of surprisingly good news.

Does Peacock know what it's saying?

And an unsolicited word of advice for everyone.

Next on the AM update.

You know, there are some times where you have to pause, even in this culture, even in this time in which we live, when it seems like darkness is pressing in all around us to stop and think, man, 10 years ago, could I have envisioned something like this happening?

And I think if I'm being honest with myself, 10 years ago and a little prior before that,

that was the battle about 10 commandments being erected or taken down from courthouses all around this great land.

Those were the battles we were fighting back then.

That was under the auspice of religious liberty could we actually display ten commandments in state courthouses or on other public properties

well now louisiana is poised to become the first state requiring display of the ten

commandments at all schools that receive public funding, including colleges and universities.

The story is from Axios.

Lawmakers in other states like Texas, South Carolina, and Utah have recently attempted similar

legislation, but none have yet passed any as stringent as Louisiana appears to likely approve.

The efforts to require the Ten Commandments displays began after Supreme Court

rulings in cases like Kennedy, the Bremerton School District indicated a looser

interpretation of the Constitution's establishment clause. The clause prevents state-sponsored

religion. The U.S. Supreme Court found a Ten Commandments display requirement unconstitutional in a

1980 ruling in a Kentucky case.

The Louisiana bill, House Bill 71, was authored by Representative Doty Horton, whose

2023 bill requires the words, in God we trust, be posted in every classroom.

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