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Permalink Reply by Loop Johnny on March 29, 2011 at 8:30am

Indiferent. The majority of people are believers and they vote for this. In a democracy 51% of the people override the decision of the other 49%. At least it does not affect the freedom of each individual.

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Permalink Reply by Femia Cools on March 29, 2011 at 8:35am

Wonder what would be the response with "I do not believe" on the plate. Zero tolerance from the believers, is my guess.

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Permalink Reply by Apple on March 29, 2011 at 8:56am

Yeah, that's the problem.  I wonder why they can't just have bumper stickers.  I wonder when will the government learn to stay neutral in matters of religion.

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Permalink Reply by scLovely on March 29, 2011 at 9:24am

I wonder the same. If they'd stay neutral, we wouldn't have such uproars. Do they not understand that by doing stupid crap like this, they are causing the controvers? If Christians never got their "In God We Trust" on our money in the first place, they wouldn't think anything about not having it on there now.

Luckily, the atheists in the lower part of the state here started a non-profit and were able to get approval for this tag:

BUT, to my understanding, you have to be a member of "Secular Humanists of the Low Country" and you have to present the DMV with an up-to-date, valid membership card saying that you're member of the group in order to be considered for the tag. It's unfair because anyone can get the christian tags.

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Permalink Reply by scLovely on March 29, 2011 at 9:16am

SC also has the "Choose Life" plate. There have been lawsuits to have a "Pro Choice" plate but the plates were never passed. That has been some time ago, though. We still only have the "Choose Life" ones, so I guess the pro-choicers just don't matter as much.

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Permalink Reply by Apple on March 29, 2011 at 10:49am

Yeah, they are still clearly playing favorites.  It's just religious bullying by the majority, which is typical.  Honestly, if they government wants to go down this road (which it shouldn't) then they need to provide options for plates of all faiths and non-faith.  I would say that at minimum they need to make available plates for Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Baha'i, Atheism, Wicca, and some sort of Paganism.

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Permalink Reply by scLovely on March 29, 2011 at 10:58pm

Agreed.

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Permalink Reply by Caesar MacEntire on March 30, 2011 at 12:59am

I have a feeling that requests for Islamic plates wouldn't go over well... It would be considered "promoting terrorism."

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Permalink Reply by Kirk Holden on March 29, 2011 at 5:29pm

When my brakes fail as I careen wildly up to a red light - I know who to plow into from behind to slow my car down. My choice prior to this was any 'baby on board' mobile.

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Permalink Reply by James on March 29, 2011 at 11:11pm

MD has the standard tag (which is a War of 1812 tag until 2015), bay tag, farm tag, and many organizational tags. Haven't seen any religious tags though. I'll agree that there is no need for 'god tags'. Especially when I've read of Atheists being turned down for vanity plates that said as such.

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Permalink Reply by Chuck C on March 29, 2011 at 11:41pm

Speaking of the "In God We Trust" on the money, I've taken to overwriting God with "Ra" on dollar bills. Somewhat fitting, I think, with the all-seeing-eye over the pyramid.

Technically illegal to "deface" currency, but I'd argue that the real defacement started in the 1950's with the illegal motto.

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Permalink Reply by scLovely on March 30, 2011 at 2:00am

Actually, I looked into it a couple of years ago when I started defacing my money and it isn't technically defacing it unless you're trying to commit some sort of fraud or mutilate it. I can't remember where I got the info, but it was online somewhere. I've been simply marking god out of it with a sharpie.

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