Ten Commandments

According the Bible's Ten Commandments, the Sabbath is a spiritual time for worship and rest from work and play.

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a Louisiana law that would require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in school classrooms by Jan. 1.

“I just remember I was like 28 and I realized they had shot a scene from ‘The Ten Commandments’ against a fake ocean over there,” Short says.

“That Librarian” is an interrogation of self and a community in a deep red state that in June passed a law requiring that the Ten Commandments be posted in every classroom.

The Christian right has had compelling spokespeople and fierce commitment to its causes, whether they were ending abortion rights, allowing prayer in schools or displaying the Ten Commandments outside of public buildings.