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Christian legislators lose battle to put In God We Trust on all Tennessee licence plates:
A TN Bill Putting “In God We Trust” On All New License Plates Has Been Amended To Make It Optional
March 30, 2017
by: Hemant Mehta
After Republicans in Tennessee threatened to put the words “In God We Trust” on every license plate issued by the state, that phrase will now be optional.
The change was made by the bill’s sponsor, State Rep. Bill Sanderson, after Attorney General Herbert Slatery III told legislators that mandating the phrase could be considered unconstitutional.
A Tennessee lawmaker has amended his bill to make the phrase “In God We Trust” optional instead of required on all license plates after an attorney general opinion found the requirement “constitutionally suspect.”
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It’s the right move, and it’s also the option that should have been offered from the very beginning. There was never any rational, secular reason to force every Tennessean to promote God on their cars, just as it would’ve been unfair to put “In God We Don’t Trust” on all the plates.
Let’s hope this saga is finally over and the legislators have learned their lesson.
Oh, who am I kidding. They’re Republicans from the South. They’ll probably just file the original bill again next year when they think no one’s paying attention.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/03/30/a-tn-bill-putting-in-god-we-trust-on-all-new-license-plates-has-been-amended-to-make-it-optional/
March 30, 2017
by: Hemant Mehta
After Republicans in Tennessee threatened to put the words “In God We Trust” on every license plate issued by the state, that phrase will now be optional.
The change was made by the bill’s sponsor, State Rep. Bill Sanderson, after Attorney General Herbert Slatery III told legislators that mandating the phrase could be considered unconstitutional.
A Tennessee lawmaker has amended his bill to make the phrase “In God We Trust” optional instead of required on all license plates after an attorney general opinion found the requirement “constitutionally suspect.”
***
It’s the right move, and it’s also the option that should have been offered from the very beginning. There was never any rational, secular reason to force every Tennessean to promote God on their cars, just as it would’ve been unfair to put “In God We Don’t Trust” on all the plates.
Let’s hope this saga is finally over and the legislators have learned their lesson.
Oh, who am I kidding. They’re Republicans from the South. They’ll probably just file the original bill again next year when they think no one’s paying attention.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/03/30/a-tn-bill-putting-in-god-we-trust-on-all-new-license-plates-has-been-amended-to-make-it-optional/
It never fails to amaze me how people can be so ignorant about the history of this motto, even some liberals seem to think it's acceptable for a secular nation to keep this silly remnant of the cold war era. And their ignorance isn't the trait that bothers me most about these troglodytes - it's their elitist privilege. The desperate insistence that this is Christian nation and constant attempts to shove this belief down our throats is a form of Christian supremacism.
You have to be a special kind of stupid to want to align yourself with the Christian Identity movement.
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Putting 'In God We Trust' on our money and courthouses is like villagers putting garlic over their doors and windows - it's just another way for the superstitious to ward off nonexistent monsters.
