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The Mikado
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« on: April 13, 2015, 06:45:43 PM »
I don't particularly like In God We Trust, but it's certainly not unconstitutional. The Establishment Clause prohibits establishing a state religion. In God We Trust isn't doing that.

As much as Antonio says otherwise, a statement of nondenominational faith on God that doesn't endorse any one religion isn't state establishment of a religion in Constitutional terms, and sixty years of Supreme Court jurisprudence hasn't taken issue with it.
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The Mikado
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« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2015, 11:13:33 PM »
RINO Tom is expressing this in a needlessly inflammatory way, but it would be simpler to say that the First Amendment does not guarantee a secular government, it guarantees a government that does not promote one religion over another.

EDIT: Or interfere with the free exercise of whatever religion you practice. That as well.
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