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Atheists, non-believers say 'In God We Trust' has no place in Nebraska classrooms
https://fremonttribune.com/news/local/education/atheists-non-believers-say-in-god-we-trust-has-no/article_5168943c-1657-5b26-a3a2-a1912622aaf6.htmlCall it an act of God — or don't — that a Tuesday snowstorm kept would-be testifiers on a bill requiring "In God We Trust" from filling up the Legislature's Education Committee hearing room.
In a marathon 2 1/2-hour hearing, all but two of the dozen people who testified on the first day of committee work called Sen. Steve Erdman's bill (LB73) a naked attempt to inject religion into Nebraska's public school system.
Erdman's proposal would require the national motto adopted by Congress in 1956 to be hung in all classrooms or school common areas.
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Joseph Couch of Lincoln, who told the committee he was an atheist, said bills such as Erdman's are part of a national trend "to distort the definition of religious freedom and our nation's history," coming as more people are abandoning religion in the U.S.
In a marathon 2 1/2-hour hearing, all but two of the dozen people who testified on the first day of committee work called Sen. Steve Erdman's bill (LB73) a naked attempt to inject religion into Nebraska's public school system.
Erdman's proposal would require the national motto adopted by Congress in 1956 to be hung in all classrooms or school common areas.
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Joseph Couch of Lincoln, who told the committee he was an atheist, said bills such as Erdman's are part of a national trend "to distort the definition of religious freedom and our nation's history," coming as more people are abandoning religion in the U.S.
Some people - including an occasional DUer - will chide atheists and non-believers on separation battles over "In god we trust" and other mild nods to theocracy. This kind of shit is why we fight. You give an inch, they take a mile. Now they can frame their bill as displaying "the national motto" instead of acknowledging it to be a specifically religious slogan.
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