US governor tells parents kids can ‘not look’ at Ten Commandments in schools

Louisiana's Jeff Landry was defending a law requiring display of text in all public schools starting next year

The far-right Louisiana governor, Jeff Landry, has told parents who don't want the Ten Commandments hung in up classrooms across the state - as now required by law there - to tell their children to not look at them".

The Republican's remarks came at a news conference on Monday defending the mandate, about two months after Louisiana became the first state in the country to order the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms.