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Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry speaks during general session at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas, U.S., August 4, 2022. REUTERS/Go Nakamura/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab June 19 (Reuters) – Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry on Wednesday signed into law a bill that makes the state the only one in the country to require displaying the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom. The American Civil Liberties Union immediately announced it would sue to block the law, saying it violates the constitutional separation of church and state and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Landry signed the bill, opens new tab along with a package of others he said were designed to "expand faith in public schools." "If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start from the original law-giver, which was Moses," Landry said at the signing ceremony. In the Christian and Jewish faiths, God revealed the Ten Commandments to Hebrew prophet Moses. Other measures would authorize the hiring of chaplains in schools, restrict teachers from mentioning sexual orientation or gender identity, and prevent schools from using a transgender student’s preferred name or pronouns unless granted permission by parents. Landry […]