USA News LIVE: Trump Endorses Ten Commandments in Schools | Trump Addresses Conservatives | N18G

USA News LIVE: Trump Endorses Ten Commandments in Schools | Trump Addresses Conservatives | CNBC TV18
Former U.S. President Donald Trump gives the keynote address at a conference of conservatives hosted by the Faith and Freedom coalition.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump told a group of evangelicals they “cannot afford to sit on the sidelines” of the 2024 election, imploring them at one point to “go and vote, Christians, please!”
Trump also endorsed displaying the Ten Commandments in schools and elsewhere while speaking to a group of politically influential evangelical Christians in Washington on Saturday. He drew cheers as he invoked a new law signed in Louisiana this week requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom.
“Has anyone read the ‘Thou shalt not steal’? I mean, has anybody read this incredible stuff? It’s just incredible,” Trump said at the gathering of the Faith & Freedom Coalition. “They don’t want it to go up. It’s a crazy world.’’
Trump has courted religious voters ahead of November’s election, and Friday’s post was made the day before he is set to speak to a gathering of Christian conservative voters in Washington, DC.
The controversial new law, signed by Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday, mandates that a poster-size display of the Ten Commandments with “large, easily readable font” be in every classroom at schools from kindergarten through the university level that receive state funding. It makes Louisiana the first state to require such a display.
Civil liberties groups have vowed to challenge the law, arguing it is unconstitutional and violates longstanding Supreme Court precedent. Opponents of the mandate point to the establishment clause of the US Constitution that says Congress can “make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”

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