Missouri gubernatorial hopeful Bill Eigel, a Republican, on Monday said he supports bringing a controversial “Ten Commandments” law to his home state.
Several Republican-led states are looking at passing laws that require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in their classrooms, after Louisiana passed one last month. That law is already facing a legal challenge from the ACLU.
Eigel said there were two things from Louisiana that he wanted to bring to Missouri: The Ten Commandments law and the state’s law that made it a crime to be in the state illegally.
“I’d like to see us replicate [these] successes. I guess my only regret is I want to be leading. I want us to be first,” Eigel said on the “Just The News, No Noise” television show. “I want there to be a couple of years from now … a gubernatorial candidate on your show from another state where you have to ask them, ‘have you heard about all the big things that Missouri is doing?’ That’s what I’ve got in mind for the ‘show-me’ state.” […]
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