The Freedom from Religion Fondation wants to keep “In God We Trust” off the walls of the new Capitol Visitor Center, and I say “Hail Doorknob!”
For those unfamiliar with its history, the phrase “In God We Trust” is the Civil War equivalent of the post-1952 addition of “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance, which the FFRF also wants kept off the walls of the new center.
Secretary of th eTreasury Salmon P. Chase pushed President Lincoln, who had little attachment to organized religion, to add the phrase to coinage as a war measure.
With more than 10 percent of the population secularists of some form, putting the phrase on the building would be, in terms of population percentage, there’s another Capitol Visitor Center, or entrance, at least, for them elsewhere.
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