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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'In God We Trust' motto now required to be displayed in all Tennessee public schools
This is what you get with a republican house, senate & governorThe bill was sponsored by Rep. Susan Lynn, R-Mt. Juliet, and approved by 81 of the 99 House members. The Tennessee state Senate unanimously passed the "In God We Trust" legislation, which was sponsored by Sen. Paul Bailey, R-Sparta, and it was signed into law by Gov. Bill Haslam in April.
Lynn spoke on the House floor to explain her belief in the importance of the motto.
"Our national motto is on our money. It's on our license plates. It's part of our national anthem. Our national motto and founding documents are the cornerstone of freedom, and we should teach our children about these things," she said.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2018/08/03/god-we-trust-motto-tennessee-public-schools/889966002/
msongs
(67,430 posts)hunter
(38,322 posts)The Conservative Christian mega-churches are mean sorry pretenders.
"Our national motto is on our money. It's on our license plates. It's part of our national anthem. Our national motto and founding documents are the cornerstone of freedom, and we should teach our children about these things," she said.
Two wrongs don't make a right
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)*dashes over to der google*
Damn, it is! all the way down in the 4th stanza:
Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust":
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/n/nationalanthemlyrics/usanationalanthemlyrics.html
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The Tennessee lege has made sure the younguns will for sure see it in the classroom. I wonder if this extends to home schooled children, too? Can the legislature mandate citizens' interior decor?
Federal lawsuit filing in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)What Every God Catches He Can Keep,The Rest Is All Mine.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Unless you have the sense to do your cash tossing indoors. That's the sensible thing to do.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)Solly Mack
(90,778 posts)And sue and sue and sue.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)..And Call It Mooning Shine?
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Or maybe it's in one of those racist verses that no one ever sings.
Wounded Bear
(58,676 posts)edhopper
(33,597 posts)how fucked up the South is.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)When a person gets a new Florida plate, they have a choice, a association plate like to a school, sports team, ect. Or they can choose a county plate, or a plate with Sunshine State or In God We Trust. Most of the plates are affinity plates or Sunshine State plates, then county plates and last In God We Trust plates.
0rganism
(23,960 posts)aka "from many one"
much more relevant and inspiring than the mammon motto, if you ask me
og motto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_pluribus_unum
cold war mammon motto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust
BigmanPigman
(51,615 posts)All others pay cash" should be the Dems motto for the GOP fiscal plans and legislation.
What ever happened to separation of church and state?
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)For some reason, they think that it is the responsibility of public institutions to instill their chosen religion into their kids. Truly stupid people.
BigmanPigman
(51,615 posts)I would not follow that rule. I have gotten around BS like this my whole life and I would find a way to do it in my classroom if I were still teaching. When you teach elementary kids they are too young to know if you are or aren't doing what the administrators want you to do. When Bush was prez my students were never aware of it either. On Presidents Day we celebrated all the other presidents and they never noticed and neither did their parents. I am independent, a rebel, clever, creative and stubborn and I would not bring anyone's god into my classroom.
Wounded Bear
(58,676 posts)flyingfysh
(1,990 posts)Augustine argued that it was permissible for the government to use force to support Christianity.
dalton99a
(81,543 posts)How about this one?
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)are mired in ridiculous myths.
sakabatou
(42,165 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,146 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,385 posts)sakabatou
(42,165 posts)phylny
(8,383 posts)themaguffin
(3,826 posts)as that would reflect the state's "god" much better.