Missouri GOP gubernatorial candidate says he supports bringing 10 Commandments law to state

Missouri gubernatorial hopeful Bill Eigel, a Republican, on Monday said he supports bringing a controversial "Ten Commandments" law to his home state.

Several Republican-led states are looking at passing laws that require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in their classrooms, after Louisiana passed one last month.  That law is already facing a legal challenge from the ACLU.

Eigel said there were two things from Louisiana that he wanted to bring to Missouri: The Ten Commandments law and the state's law that made it a crime to be in the state illegally.

"I'd like to see us replicate [these] successes. I guess my only regret is I want to be leading. I want us to be first," Eigel said on the "Just The News, No Noise" television show. "I want there to be a couple of years from now ... a gubernatorial candidate on your show from another state where you have to ask them, 'have you heard about all the big things that Missouri is doing?' That's what I've got in mind for the 'show-me' state."

Eigel, who is currently a state senator, also supports reining in the state's budget and reducing taxes.

"Quite frankly, I don't think I've met a tax that I wasn't willing to cut," Eigel said on the show in April. "The state budget is out of control here in the state of Missouri, and because we have such a tax burden, we're falling behind some of the other big red states led by bold conservative governors around this country. In Missouri, voters are expecting more from Republicans in this state."

Eigel is gaining on the two frontrunners for the GOP nomination for governor, according to an American Dream PAC poll last week. The state's primary will be held Aug. 6, 2024. 

Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just the News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.