A while ago the government started up this petition submission thing on their website. Any petition that manages to obtain enough signatures will be looked over by congress. This petition service has been used to protest sopa and pipa among other things. Right now there is a petition to remove "In God we trust" and replace it with America's old motto: "E Pluribus Unum" which is latin for "Out of many, one".
To sign the petition you have to make an account if you haven't already, but its one of the shortest signup forms I've seen. Just make sure you use a valid email address because you have to activate the account.
Here's the link:
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/#!/petition/remove-god-we-trust-legal-tender/54Bdy0R5The petition started today and it already has 2769 petitions and its steadily rising, but we still need to reach 25,000 for it to be looked at by congress.
Putting this here because nobody's reading it on the site:
Currently, all green backs have the words In God We Trust printed on them. This ubiquitous statement has come to be known as our national motto, circa 1956, when it replaced E Pluribus Unum(Translates to 'Out of many, one'). This change was made during the cold war, when fear and propaganda were at the height of dissemination, and serves only to divide us as a nation.
A great many citizens of the United States follow non-theistic or poly-theistic faiths, or are simply atheist, and believe the national governments recognition of a deity to be in violation of the first amendment. As such, we ask that the national motto be restored to E Pluribus Unum and replaced on all green backs.Why does this matter?
People say that it is to small of a deal to contend, but that same person does not know how to kill a democracy. Let me put it in a simple brown townogy. To kill a democracy is like boiling a frog. If you turn the heat up too quickly, the frog jumps out of the pot. Now, if you are to raise the temperature slowly, the frog will not notice and become vulnerable. If you were to dissolve the separation of the church and state, you would do it by slowly turning up the amount of intrusion that the church had. Now, I'm not saying that there is going to be a religiously controlled government in this country anytime soon, if ever. I'm just saying that this would always going to be a starting point for greater violations of the constitution if someone were to try and practice that.
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