In God we Trust Legislation..Who are the idiots paying for this?

Your government will spend time and treasure in reaffirming and ignoring all the legislation that will try to put people back to work so they can pass a resolution that says in god we trust. Is that why anybody sent this people and paid their inflated salaries to Washington Dc- to do?  Did anybody?? Because if anybody did, then I would ask why? To spend the government's money on something that has no meaning to the government.No meaning to the people in need. It makes no money, it does not pay for it self and every american has a different idea on who their god should be. Through the centuries and thru all the blood shed through the inquisition, or the crusades or the witch hunts..there was human blood spent and it accomplished cero nada OO/ But some people in Washington believe that this should take precedent over any human problem. Who is responsible for this? Well the people that sent these people to Washington should be, no?   I think is about time that we turn the criticism on the idiots in washington and aim at the idiots that sent them there. I know this is a touchy subject with the media. You see these idiots are consumers and they spent money on the commercialism that the media sells. So we can criticize the idiots , which is gotten better than before, but still no criticism of the idiot voter who gets away with it. I think times should change and criticism should be attached to the tail of the real jack ass. “The Voter.”   by adamfoxie*

 

The U.S. House of Representatives will vote Tuesday on a resolution to affirm the phrase “In God We Trust” as the nation’s official motto, according to Politico.

Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA), the founder and chairman of the Congressional Prayer Caucus, sponsored the legislation. It would encourage the public display of the motto in all public buildings, public schools and government institutions.

“Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will have the same opportunity to reaffirm our national motto and directly confront a disturbing trend of inaccuracies and omissions, misunderstandings of church and state, rogue court challenges, and efforts to remove God from the public domain by unelected bureaucrats,” Forbes said.

Forbes said he introduced the bill in January because he was troubled by a pattern of omitting God from the nation’s heritage.

“As our nation faces challenging times, it is appropriate for Members of Congress and our nation—like our predecessors—to firmly declare our trust in God, believing that it will sustain us for generations to come.”

The resolution was approved by the House Judiciary Committee in March.

The legislation has 64 co-sponsors, including a handful of Democrats.

The phrase “In God We Trust” was made the official U.S. motto in 1956, one year after the phrase “under God” was incorporated into the Pledge of Allegiance.

Critics of the resolution said it violated the establishment clause of the Constitution, which states that “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion.”

  “The phrase ‘In God We Trust’ does not apply to the more than 16 percent of Americans who identify themselves as atheist, agnostic, nonreligious, or unaffiliated, and it does not apply to religious Americans who do not have Judeo-Christian beliefs,” said Sean Faircloth, executive director of the Secular Coalition for America. “Branding our secular country with a religious motto only creates division among its citizens and erodes the wall of separation between church and state.”

Forbes claimed the resolution addressed different religions across the country and was not “just about Christians.” He said the resolution is meant to affirm the importance of God in the heritage of the United States.

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