Ten Commandments governor declares no church-state separation in rough Fox News interview
Louisiana Republican Governor Jeff Landry appeared surprised in a Friday Fox News interview when asked to defend his newly-signed law requiring the Bible's Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom throughout the state, which critics say is unconstitutional.
Speaking about the First Amendment principle of separation of church and state, which the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed at least a half-dozen times, Landry declared: "I challenge anyone who says that to go find me those words in the First Amendment. They don't exist."
He went on to claim those who want to "extract" what he claims are America's Judeo-Christian principles "out of the foundation of this country...really and truly want to create the chaos that ultimately is the demise of this nation."...