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Will Louisiana consider mandating religious prayer in schools after it became the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be posted in every public school and university classroom? Republican Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry was asked specifically if he believes organized prayer should be allowed in schools during a Monday news conference in which he and Republican Attorney General Liz Murrill outlined their constitutional court defense of the new Ten Commandments law. Landry didn’t say specifically whether he would endorse or sign a bill to allow prayer in schools if it were passed by the Legislature, but he did say students "don’t leave their First Amendment rights at the doors of school houses when they go in there." "If we start from a moral perspective, maybe we’d have more peace in our society," he said. Landry noted that public prayer is practiced by elected governing bodies like Congress and the state Legislature. "Every morning the U.S. House is opened for business with a prayer, and yet we deny — our government in some fashion denies our citizens the right to appreciate the very things that they elected those to the highest offices or appointed to the highest offices can […]