By Fr. Mario Alexis Portella, Crisis Magazine - The State of Louisiana, this June, became the first state in our country to enact a requirement for displaying the Ten Commandments in schools since the U.S. Supreme Court, in Stone v. Graham (1980), struck down a Kentucky law that had a similar directive. In that case, the Court found that the law violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution, which states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”