Dr. Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon and former housing and urban development secretary under former President Donald Trump, was confronted by CNN‘s Abby Phillip on Friday night about Trump’s support of the Ten Commandments being displayed in Louisiana schools.
The conversation comes after Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed a bill into law on Wednesday requiring the Ten Commandments to be on display in every public school classroom in the state. Louisiana is the only state in the country to have such a law.
This new law has sparked a conversation about the separation of church and state, and has faced backlash from civil rights groups who call it “blatantly unconstitutional.”
The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU’s Louisiana chapter, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation announced on Wednesday that they would file a lawsuit to challenge the new law.
