'In God We Trust' license plate gets initial nod in Indiana

[Thom Little]

Indiana has license plates dedicated to everything from Girl Scouts to the Indianapolis Colts, but some legislators want to add one more -- for God.

For the second straight year, Rep. Woody Burton, R-Greenwood, is pushing for creating an "In God We Trust" license plate. The House passed the bill in last year's session, but it stalled in the Senate.

"What I want is exactly what it says on the dollar bill," Burton said. "Nothing more."

.......

Burton said he wasn't sure exactly how much the God license plate would cost but said it would be different from many specialty license tags because no money would be passed on to a special interest group.

That doesn't satisfy Lindsey Mintz. As director of government affairs for the Jewish Community Relations Council, she testified against the license plate at Thursday's committee hearing.

"There is still a line between religion and government, and it is actually being crossed," Mintz said. "There are still tax dollars being used to create a plate that invokes a particular deity."


http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060106/NEWS02/601060486

[BR_Parkway]

1. Perhaps they could give that money to say, Muslims or Wiccans

wouldn't that be fair, Rep Burton?

[grytpype]

2. soon

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[Nomen Tuum]

32. Add a couple more to Canada.

I got a feeling we'll see some more states added to that like Nevada, Montana, Iowa, Alaska, Hawaii and Ohio!

[K-W]

3. This is why the pledge, and the money slogan MATTER.

Because if they are constitutional, why cant Christians put thier slogans on everything?

[trotsky]

6. Exactly.

Give 'em an inch...

[TankLV]

34. Exactly. Has NO business being in either.

Take it all off!

[acmejack]

4. Those guys have gotten hold of some serious Jesus juice up there!

Nothing is safe while the Indiana lege is in session.

[blueinindiana]

7. I live in Indiana

Indiana is one of the Reddest states in the Union outside of the south. Six of its nine House seats are GOP, the only 2 Democratic seats are in Indianapolis and Gary. If you are Democrat you almost always have ot be a DINO such as Evan Bayh.

I has voted GOP in every Presidential election since LBJ. Presidential Candidates never spend anytime here. There is no reason too it always go GOP. It is one of the very first sates to report GOP because of the overwhelming percentage.

I live in the southern part of the state where most have ties to the south.

IN the north you have large farms.

Indiana was once run by the KKK in the 1920's

I know we have some progressive here but we are drowned out by the GUNS GOD GAYS crowd.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. Welcome to DU!

I'm glad there are a few rugged individualists like you in Indiana. Let's hope they come around in the next election...

[blueinindiana]

17. Thanks for the Welcome..

It is very hard to be a reasonable person in a sea of unreasonable and ill informed and easily misled people. Unfortunately I have family members who have been poisoned by Fox News but I never talk politics with them.

It is not fun going to polls in Indiana knowing the futility of your vote especially for the President.

Indiana has lost huge for decades under GOP rule yet time and time again like much of the rest of the country it continues to vote against tis own self interest. Indiana has much more heartache in store, when Delphi decimates Kokomo and Anderson when the eliminate 1000's of jobs.

One prime example is our esteemed Governor Mitch Daniels who was vote din with a landslide on his first day in office remove union representation for state workers.

Yet I know many state workers voted for him because of GUNS GOD and GAYS.



PS I love Guinness

[acmejack]

10. I relate totally.

I live in Texas so I darn sure wasn't throwing any stones. May there be better times for us both soon!

[Gemini Cat]

33. Instead of presidential candidates writing Indiana off

maybe they should spend a little time here.
Indiana is red for a reason and it's not because we're stupid. It may have a lot to do with we don't get attention from the candidates.

[LSparkle]

5. I wish Indiana and Texas would just secede ...

Totally different worlds ...

[China_cat]

8. We have an 'in god we trust'

license plate here in SC. We also have this:



If Indiana gets their 'god' plate, insist on one like this...or even replace reason with 'reality' or 'science' or some other word guaranteed to drive the fundies nuts. They tried to block the plate here but the courts said that if they allow one specialty group a plate, they have to allow opposing viewpoints to also have one.

[Delphinus]

12. Do you know who pushed for that?

It sounds like something I'd go for.

[China_cat]

15. Secular humanists of the Lowcountry.

pm me and I can give you Herb Silverman's email address. (He's the atheist that had to fight 7 years through the courts in order to become a notary public here in SC...and he's the guiding light behind this plate.)

[DefenseLawyer]

11. Woody Burton

is of course Congressman Dan "watermelon" Burton's brother. For those that don't recall, Danny once invited reporters to his back yard to watch him shoot at a watermelon to "prove" that Vince Foster was murdered.

[salin]

20. ole danny has a lot a dirt in his closet

and some of it not hidden at all... and yet he keeps getting reelected. Our congressional delegation, at least the repubs, are such an embarassment. Steve LetsUseATactical Nuke Buyer (with his - I very odd self-claimed service (record); Make breast cancer survivors cry by berating them with erroneous (and bad science) studies linking breast cancer to abortions John Hostettler; Dan BlowUpTheWatermelons Burton, and others.

[Bzzzz]

25. Exactly...

an illegitimate child and a son that was transporting a 'load' of pot and nothing heard of since...

[salin]

30. Indeed I never heard of the second situation.

When did that happen? I follow the news - it had to have been very slight to no coverage for me to have missed it - unless the story dates back six or seven years.

[Bzzzz]

36. It's been at least 7-8 years ago...

I can't recall if he was coming from Alabama, Mississippi, or Lousiana, but was stopped by police and busted. It received very little coverage...Daddy's love child created a much bigger story, but I'd still like to know how he kept his son's bust under low radar.

[JVS]

13. Well it's not the normal state plate. I'd like to see "Blumpkins forever"

on a plate too. Maybe if a few thousand IL people join me in the demand, we can proudly spread the blumpkin message.

[One_Life_To_Give]

14. Add" All others pay cash"

Or maybe we can get plates that say
"Jesus Saves"
"Moses Invests"

[ovidsen]

16. It's just a generic "God" reference

And so I'm not going to go ballistic over this. Now, if they were pushing for "Jesus Saves" plates...

The fact is, "In God We Trust" is on all our cash, and is all over the place. I'm going to pick my battles. I've never lived in Indiana anyway.

However, being a South Carolina resident, I'm damn glad this state issues "In Reason We Trust" plates, if only because they're a thumb in the eyes of all the Christo-nazis here.

[DavidDvorkin]

19. Generic references to God still violate separation

Something of which Americans, and particularly the courts, need to be reminded.

[ovidsen]

26. I'm not sure that's true

Because if it is, then I have unconstitutional money in my pocket.

I don't like the commingling of state and religion either. I'm just noting what courts have already said about "In God We Trust", and picking my fights.

[TankLV]

35. That is why it MUST be removed from the pledge and our money, too!

It doesn't belong on any of it!

What's next after this one - put god on all official business because "it's on the money and in the pledge" krap, too?!

That's like saying "I'm god and this is true because the book I wrote says so!" krap.

[DavidDvorkin]

37. Bingo

I couldn't agree more.

[Betsy Ross]

18. Dateline Indiana, 2007

Re-end collisions up 20%; atheists blamed.

[DBoon]

21. How about "touched by his noodley presence" plates

for followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

[Gregorian]

22. In God we thumb our noses.

That's what it should read.

But I'm sure God's smart enough to figure it out without our help.

[VegasWolf]

23. How about "God is Dead" license tags? nt

[MasonJar]

24. Gad! Indiana and Ohio and even Colorada are slip, slipping

away. And believe me I know the feeling. Kentucky used to be mainly democratic(big and little) "d." Now we are red and it falls directly on the lazy Dem Party leaders. They did nothing for Gore, which really galled me. They are picking up the pressure this year. We had a 600,000 dollar rally with Hilary as the speaker.

[struggle4progress]

27. Exactly what part of the commandment forbidding taking the Name ..

.. in vain did they not understand?

[DBoon]

28. "In Dog We Trust"

[meow2u3]

29. In God we trust--all others must show ID

[dchill]

31. Hey Woody...

"What I want is exactly what it says on the dollar bill," Burton said. "Nothing more."

Glue a dollar bill on your trunk lid, and leave everyone else alone.

[indypaul]

38. But do not ask a member

of the legislature or this administration the time.
They have ignored geography and placed the state in
the Eastern time zone. The inmates are running the
institution. Stay tuned for the next exciting episode.

[HockeyMom]

39. Go Buy a BUMPER STICKER

if you wish to express your religious views. Keep GOVERNMENT out of it.

[Roland99]

42. Already have it!

;)

[Zenlitened]

40. Perfect example of how the religionist infection spreads.

"Well, it's on our money, so what's the big deal?"

:puke:

[Zhade]

43. Oh, but don't you know?

We happy 'godless' atheists and assorted nontheists must shut up, or we're 'costing votes'.

I'll tell you motherfuckers (you know who you are) what's costing votes: not standing up for the separation of church and state, civil rights and equality for all. That's costing you MY fucking vote, for example.

[Jimbo S]

41. I started writing on my money: "In Science We Trust"

IN GOD WE TRUST
SCIENCE