Mark Chancey, professor of religious studies at SMU Dallas, for a commentary critical of the Louisiana law mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools. Published in The Hill under the heading Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law is dangerously wrong on history and religion: https://tinyurl.com/bdepz87h
Louisiana’s new law to mandate display of the Ten Commandments in public schools manages to mangle both history and the Ten Commandments themselves.
It justifies its mandate by suggesting the Founding Fathers would have favored it, citing a quotation it attributes to James Madison: “We have staked the whole future of our new nation upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.”
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