Former President Donald Trump is backing the position of the Ten Commandments in colleges and different public areas, dubbing it the “first main step within the revival of faith.”

Mr. Trump weighed in days after Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, signed a legislation requiring the commandments to be positioned in each public classroom in his state.

“I like the Ten Commandments in public colleges, personal colleges, and plenty of different locations, for that matter,” Mr. Trump wrote Friday on Fact Social, deploying all-caps for emphasis. “Learn it — how can we, as a nation, go fallacious???”

The American Civil Liberties Union and different teams plan to battle the Louisiana legislation, which sparked one other debate in regards to the separation of church and state within the U.S.

Mr. Landry defended the choice to show commandments that, within the biblical narrative, had been handed to Moses. The governor stated, “You’ve acquired to begin from the unique lawgiver.”

The authorized battle might get a pleasant viewers on the Supreme Court docket, which has tilted towards the conservative proper lately via three appointments by Mr. Trump.

Mr. Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee in opposition to President Biden, is just not a frequent church-goer or outwardly spiritual in his private life. However he’s courted Christian conservatives as a significant bloc of assist, which might clarify his embrace of the commandments.

“This can be, in actual fact, the primary main step within the revival of faith, which is desperately wanted, in our nation,” he wrote. “Convey again TTC!!! MAGA2024.”

Polls present Mr. Trump barely main or just about tied with Mr. Biden heading into the summer time occasion conventions.