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Laughed Out of Court

Posted on June 13th, 2006 in Justice

US District Judge Frank C. Damrell Jr. dismissed a lawsuit brought by activist and atheist Michael Newdow seeking to have the words “In God We Trust” removed from our money.

Newdow was suing on the grounds that the appearance of those words on our money constituted a violation of his 1st Amendment rights. The suit, which targeted Congress and other federal officials and claimed that the mere appearance of the words “In God We Trust” on the official currency of the nation, is an establishment of religion and violates the 1st Amendment’s establishment clause which requires a “separation of church and state” and “excludes people who do not believe in God”.

Hogwash! The words “separation of church and state” do not appear anywhere in the Constitution. The term did not exist until President Thomas Jefferson sent a letter to the Danbury Baptists to assure them that the Constitution did forbid the establishment of a national religion. And the “symbolic wall” that he stated in his letter is the prohibition on Congress from passing legislation which would establish a religious theocracy.

This nation was founded by Christians seeking religious freedoms from the Church of England which had become extremely oppressive. So this notion that religion needs to be removed from our society negates everything that those who settled here for, that our founding fathers fought for, and most especially that our soldiers have died for. It is the ultimate betrayal of those who came before us. And it must end.

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