House to vote on affirming ‘In God We Trust’ as national motto

[dkamm65]

I'm agnostic, but I'm cool with this. Good luck, though, Congress can't make any religion the official religion of the US.

That's what they want to do though.

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[IkeTheGeneric]

I love it how so many people actually have a problem with this

[dkamm65]

I love it how so many people actually have a problem with this

It's unconstitutional.

[Sulfate]

work on useful things like deporting mexicans. don't waste your time with religion

[Jacob/Lee]

That's what they want to do though.

I know. No matter what, this isn't going to pass.

[TheKhoz]

work on useful things like deporting mexicans. don't waste your time with religion

What. That doesn't make any sense to me.

"Hey! Work on not letting anyone come to the land of the free but instead forcing a religious ideal onto everything!"

Also, would America mind if our motto was Om? Or if it was "Allāhu Akba"?

[Funkadelic]

I dont really see what the problem here is now...

[Wedge]

It's unconstitutional.

This is a House Concurrent Resolution. It's not presented to the president and it has no legal enforcement. It's just a declaration of intent or opinion, so it can't be unconstitutional. It can be passed by a simple roll call vote which doesn't even require that all of our law makers be present to vote.

It's also just a bunch of people looking to score some quick political points from their constituents. As another example of a House Concurrent Resolution, H. Con. Res. 25 condemns the Obama Administration for directing the DOJ to stop enforcing the Defense of Marriage Act. It was sponsored by Rep. Vicky Hartzler of Montana and cosponsered by 122 other representatives, all of them Republican. In the end, I think the only point of it was so Rep. Hartzler could "prove" to his voters that he opposed Obama on this issue.

The text and sponsors of the bill can be found here: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=hc112-13
You can see a list of all the bills Forbes sponsored here: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billsearch.xpd?sponsor=400137 (some of which are... odd - note there are NO cosponsors...)
You can read more about Forbes here: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cycle=2012&cid=N00013799&type=I


It should be no surprise that Forbes is also running for re-election in 2012.

[Kearn]

if you don't like the USA's laws, leave

[Wedge]

if you don't like the USA's laws, leave

Once again you have posted something that does not make any god damn sense. This seems to be common behavior for you on any kind of political thread.

In order for a law to be passed or amended, there has to be someone who views the current state of the law to be inadequate. At the very least your argument requires that every single politician leave the country and we never have another election again.

[Qwepir]

Oh that's just wonderful. Why don't we just adorn public buildings with "In Men's Butts We Put Our snakees", since we're suddenly okay with forcing lifestyles down everyone's gullet.

[Wedge]

[Gojira]

The United States was founded on religion, loving deal with it.

agreed.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

[dkamm65]

agreed.

That says nothing about the country being founded on religion.

[Gojira]

That says nothing about the country being founded on religion.

endowed by their Creator

the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them

???