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Louisiana mandates non-Biblical Twelve Commandments, as used by Cecil B. DeMille, posted in schools
That’s a problem, because there are a lot of different versions of the Ten Commandments, all of which are phrased and enumerated differently. The version of “The Ten Commandments” mandated by Horton’s bill is not taken from any of those. It is, instead, the version concocted in 1950 by the Fraternal Order of Eagles and Cecil B. DeMille.
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White Republican state Rep. Dodie Horton’s bill in Louisiana uses this language. The text schools would be required to post in classrooms — mandated in the text of the bill itself — is the text from Ruegemer’s posters, listing his abridged and edited version of the 11 or 12 commandments in his own pseudo-KJV language.
Yes, eleven. Or 12, depending on whether or not you’re from a tradition that treats “I am the Lord thy God” as the first commandment.
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Note that only this abridged and edited version of Exodus 20:1-17 is permitted under the proposed Louisiana statute. Schools would be violating the law if they were to post the parallel passage from Deuteronomy 5. And they would be violating the law if they were to post the full, unedited and unaltered text of Exodus 20:1-17.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/05/20/louisiana-will-post-the-twelve-commandments-in-schools/
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White Republican state Rep. Dodie Horton’s bill in Louisiana uses this language. The text schools would be required to post in classrooms — mandated in the text of the bill itself — is the text from Ruegemer’s posters, listing his abridged and edited version of the 11 or 12 commandments in his own pseudo-KJV language.
Yes, eleven. Or 12, depending on whether or not you’re from a tradition that treats “I am the Lord thy God” as the first commandment.
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Note that only this abridged and edited version of Exodus 20:1-17 is permitted under the proposed Louisiana statute. Schools would be violating the law if they were to post the parallel passage from Deuteronomy 5. And they would be violating the law if they were to post the full, unedited and unaltered text of Exodus 20:1-17.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/05/20/louisiana-will-post-the-twelve-commandments-in-schools/
Fred Clark also points out that the Fraternal Order of Eagles, which did not allow non-white members until the 1970s, dropped the "which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage" bit. Perhaps because they didn't want to mention that this God was against slavery. Or that these Commandments were specific to one people, over 2,000 years ago.
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and in France they use the metric system so the 10 converts to 12. I’ll see if I can find a conversion website.
Then Mel Brooks accidentally dropped one of the three tablets when he came down from the mountain. 