Media Release 30 June 2024
Right to Life believes that in order to restore our Christian culture, we need to start in the classroom.
We urge Christian schools to be at the forefront in a campaign to have the Ten Commandments displayed in every classroom in New Zealand, as we believe this would be in conformity with the special character of Christian schools.
Right to Life encourages the government to follow the inspirational example of the Louisiana legislature who overwhelmingly passed a bill on April 10, 2024, which requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every classroom in the state.
Louisiana Governor, Jeff Landry, signed the law which reads: “Each public school governing authority and the governing authority of each non -public school that receives state funds shall display the Ten Commandments in each building it uses and classroom in each school under its jurisdiction.”
The Ten Commandments were given by God to Moses for the human family to be the foundation of justice, law and morality, and the 10 Commandments have been the foundation of Western civilisation.
Today we are witnessing the destruction of our civilisation and its replacement with a destructive secular humanist ideology that permits us to kill, commit adultery, steal and lie. The Commandments acknowledge God alone as the Supreme Being to whom we owe our love and obedience
The Commandments demand that we respect the sanctity of life of every human being from conception to natural death, this is a fundamental duty we owe to God and to our neighbour.
They prohibit the killing of unborn children, who are God’s precious infants. They also prohibit doctors killing their patients with a lethal injection or assisting in their suicide.
The Commandments stipulate that marriage is to be understood as being exclusively between one man and one woman.
The Ten Commandments bill highlights the failure of the political left wing movement to push its anti-Christian agenda, despite the power and support of the secular media and the culture which it holds. Louisiana is not the only state to call for posting the Ten Commandments. Texas, South Carolina, and Utah have also attempted to enact similar legislation to indicate how necessary the Ten Commandments are for living in a civilised manner.
Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life New Zealand Inc.