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 regulation requiring the commandments to be positioned in each public classroom in his state.

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

The American Civil Liberties Union and different teams plan to battle the Louisiana regulation, 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 start out from the unique lawgiver.”

The authorized battle may get a pleasant viewers on the Supreme Courtroom, which has tilted towards the conservative proper in recent times by means of three appointments by Mr. Trump.

Mr. Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee in opposition to President Biden, isn’t a frequent church-goer or outwardly non secular in his private life. However he’s courted Christian conservatives as a serious bloc of help, which may clarify his embrace of the commandments.

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

Polls present Mr. Trump barely main or nearly tied with Mr. Biden heading into the summer season get together conventions.