Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry told Newsmax at the site of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee that he didn't realize putting the Ten Commandments in classrooms across his state would be a fight.
"I didn't know it was a bad way for you to live your life," he said during an appearance on "America Right Now."
"The left went crazy. And, you know, you think about it, you think about how dark of a time we are in right now in this failed assassination attempt. Maybe if the Ten Commandments would have been hung in that fella's school, maybe he wouldn't have done what he did," Landry said.
"I mean, again, were talking about a set of edicts about how to live a good life ... It's ridiculous."
According to an agreement approved by a federal judge Friday, the commandments won't be installed in Louisiana public school classrooms until November after a group of parents filed a lawsuit challenging the new law. The law, drafted by Republican state Rep. Dodie Horton, requires a display of the commandments in "large, easily readable font" starting in kindergarten for public schools all the way through state-funded universities.
Former President Donald Trump previously voiced his support for the law during a campaign speech.
"Has anyone read the 'Thou shalt not steal'? I mean, has anybody read this incredible stuff? It's just incredible," Trump said at the Faith & Freedom Coalition Conference. "They don't want it to go up. It's a crazy world."
Landry said he is prepared to win the fight for the commandments in classrooms and is prepared to take it all the way to the Supreme Court.
The Louisiana governor, who recently finished his first legislative session, also told Newsmax that voters need to remember Democrats have "trickery afoot."
While President Joe Biden has been "incapable of governing the country since the beginning," he said, the failures over the past four years belong to the entire Democratic Party, not just Biden.
"They support open borders. They supported defunding the police. They supported the fentanyl that's pouring across the border and killing 100,000 Americans a year. And all of the bad policies and lack of jobs and the high inflation is on them," he said.
"All of that is on them."
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