‘In God We Trust’: Official U.S. Motto to Stay on Currency as Court Rejects Atheist Bid to Remove It

Dec 6, 2016 by Jill

by Hazel Torres, Christian Today:

Money does not exist “for the express purpose that it be observed and read by the public.”

Citing this as one of the grounds for its decision, a U.S. district court on Wednesday dismissed a case filed by a group of atheist humanists who sought to remove “In God We Trust” on the U.S. currency, Charisma News reported.

The atheist group referred to in court documents as “New Doe Child” had alleged that the inscription of “In God We Trust” on the American currency “violates the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment; the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, and the right to equal protection under the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.”

However, the wartime veterans’ organisation American Legion, with the legal assistance of the First Liberty Institute, filed an amicus brief with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio in May, stating that the plaintiffs made three errors in their argument.

That American Legion pointed out that the plaintiffs confused free exercise doctrine with Establishment Clause doctrine; confused the purpose of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act; and confused government speech with compelled speech.

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