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Message:: [QUOTE="Suarez, post: 4027895, member: 99239"]This isn't quite as clever a revelation as you think it is. There is only one freedom, the freedom to ("freedom from" is another way of saying prohibited). The founding fathers worded it perfectly clearly when they wrote "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion". It took an act of congress (a law) to place the motto on our currency. Therefore, the key legal precept is whether doing so does or does not constitute a religious position. There's no question that had the proposed motto been "In Jesus We Trust" it would have failed the test but, according to the rulings so far, the word "God" is sufficiently vague to skate through. I'm of the personal opinion (I could be wrong) that had this issue not come up until today that there wouldn't be a snowball's chance that Congress would be able to get this enacted. Obviously, the Democrats would block it but the underlying reason is the huge change in demographics. Not just the shift towards more secularization but also the expansion of minority religions. Only Christians - and then only a partial number of them - would be for the inclusion of IGWT while the rest would prefer another motto (or nothing at all). It's a much different situation than 1950's America. Rasiel[/QUOTE]