Whoopi Goldberg and "the view" cast loses it over ten commandments in schools

By Andrew K. Coakley

After United States Governor Jeff Landry signed into law that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public-school classroom in Louisiana, Whoopi Goldberg and the women on “the View” television show blew a fuse.

If there were any apprehension or question as to where most of the women of that show stands in terms of Christianity, God and the Bible (although that stance was exposed a long time ago), news of Governor Landry’s decision brought their position even more into the light.

In a diatribe that reverberated with seething anger, Whoopi Goldberg said the new law “bothered her to no end” because when she was a child, people were allowed to believe what they believed, and it was not discussed with anyone.

“If you want your child to have a religious education, send them to a religious school. There’s nothing stopping you,” Whoopi said in her rant on the television daytime show recently.

Other members of the show also got in their “two cents”, the underlying tone being that of disgust for the new law. Joy Behar even went as far as to insert Donald Trump into the discussion, noting that “Trump had broken at least eleven commandments”. Considering that there are only Ten commandments, I guess Trump broke an extra one for good measure.

“I mean, this guy (Trump) has gone above and beyond and yet these so-called Christians are going to vote for him,” Behar said on the show.

What Donald Trump has to do with the implementation of this new law is beyond me.

Louisiana became the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under the Bill signed into law by Governor Landry last week. Since then, not only has hosts from “the View” expressed their views on the matter, but because the law was implemented by a Republican Governor, Democrats have made the move a political football and has been tossing around criticism of Landry on every news network they could get on.

On a Fox News report, Governor Landry was asked, given the criticism and backlash he’s received thus far, if he still thought that signing that Bill was the right move. His response? Yes, it was. In fact, he went on to point out that the foundation of the United States was founded on “Judeo Christian principles”, adding that every time America strayed away from those principles, it resulted in problems within the nation.

Hello, is anyone listening?

It was baffling to listen to the Fox News Reporter “politely” chastise Governor Landry, by asking what the goal was for displaying the Ten Commandments in the public schools. She wondered how the Ten Commandments in schools will improve the school environment and the performance of students in those schools. She then pointed to Louisiana’s struggling education system, reminding Governor Landry that the schools in his state were ranked at the bottom of the country in certain subjects and examination results.

She, like others, was missing the big picture.

Some called the new Bill “Christian Nationalism”, and some even said it was endorsing one particular religion in the classroom and therefore, goes against the Constitution. Before I go on, let me say this, from the other perspective, I can see why some people would view this as “pushing” a religion onto others. For instance, I would not want anyone to force my child to have to read the Quran in school, because that’s not our religious beliefs. So, I get their ire from that standpoint.

However, how many parents in public schools had any say when they allowed drag queens to go into the public primary schools and read books to their three- and four-year-olds? Parents in public schools had no say when the schools endorsed and almost demanded that every child read sexually explicit books, that pushed the LGBTQ agenda, as a part of the curriculum. Parents of public-school children had no say when schools put up the rainbow flag in classrooms and students and even some teachers were expelled and fired respectively because they refused to address trans and non-binary children by their preferred pronouns.

So, all this talk about the Governor trying to “push” Christianity on children in public school, suddenly has no bearing. All of a sudden everyone is up in arms about the Ten Commandments being displayed in public schools, as if some people have forgotten all the trauma parents of public-school children had to endure, as minority groups were allowed to freely push their respective agendas in public schools.

The hypocrisy is blinding!

But, unlike special interest groups who demanded that their immoral codes of conducts be implemented in some schools, this new law passed by Governor Landry does not require nor demand students to read out loud, or in unison, the ten commandments every morning. Children don’t even have to read it. It’s not a part of the school’s curriculum, and children will not have to study it. The law simply requires that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school in Louisiana.

What’s the harm in that? Yet, some people are having a nervous break down about it and are screaming “foul!” at the top of their voices. It only goes to show how far this world has fallen and how the mere presence of Jehovah God in public society stirs up some people’s hatred for God, Christians, the Bible and anything that resembles morality.

But like Governor Landry said with a smile on his face “this is a step in the right direction. We understand what a foundation of laws are, and we are a nation of laws and not of men.”

Perhaps, all of this opposition and deep-seated hatred to the idea of the Ten Commandments being publicly displayed would only serve as a reminder to many people of just how far they are from God, their Creator or it may remind them of just how much they need the Savior. And that scares the crap out of them!