If you don't know where you are coming from, you probably don't know where you are going either -- and America's origins were Christian.
The House on Tuesday passed a non-binding resolution reaffirming "In God We Trust" as the national motto.
The measure sponsored by Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., supports and encourages the motto's display in all public schools and government buildings. It was approved 396-9, with 2 abstentions.
Forbes said the resolution was needed because President Obama had once called "E pluribus unum" the national motto, and the Latin phrase meaning "from many one" was engraved in the new Capitol Visitors Center until Congress ordered that it be corrected.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., called the resolution a meaningless distraction from the nation's real problems. "Nobody is threatening the national motto," he said.
President Obama responded Wednesday by trying to shame the Republican-controlled House by accusing its leaders of wasting time during a jobs crisis with debates over commemorative baseball coins and reaffirming "In God We Trust" as the country's motto.
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Christians take a bit of a battering in the USA these days so this may encourage more outreach from them and delay the delegitimization of them that seems to be in train
Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
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