Atheists sue to remove ‘In God We Trust’ from police cars
Alliance Defending Freedom sent letters Tuesday to 17 sheriff’s offices and police departments across the nation after they received complaints from an atheist group wrongly stating that displaying the official U.S. national motto, “In God We Trust,” on department vehicles is unconstitutional.
“Americans should not be forced to abandon their heritage simply to appease the animosity of anti-religious groups toward anything that references God,” said ADF Legal Counsel Matt Sharp. “These departments should simply ignore the unfounded demands from these groups, especially since courts have upheld the national motto in a wide variety of other contexts for decades.”
“Many of these same motives underlay the decision by your department and others across the country to display the national motto on vehicles: promoting patriotism; acknowledging the role of religion in our society; and acknowledging the longstanding historical practice of seeking divine protection for those in harm’s way,” the letter continues.
ADF sent letters to all of the departments and offices that received letters from the atheist group, Freedom From Religion Foundation: Bay County Sheriff’s Office, Fla.; Bonifay Police Department, Fla.; Marion County Sheriff’s Office, Fla.; Walton County Sheriff’s Office, Fla.; Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, Ill.; Greenup County Sheriff’s Office, Ky.; Amory Police Department, Miss.;Brookfield Police Department, Mo.; Laclede County Sheriff’s Department, Mo.; Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office, Mo.; Linn County Sheriff’s Department, Mo.; Ralls County Sheriff’s Office, Mo.;Randolph County Sheriff’s Office, Mo.; Stone County Sheriff’s Department, Mo.; Halifax County Sheriff’s Office, N.C.; Elizabethton Police Department, Tenn.; and Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office, Va.
[…] The Global Dispatch has this– Alliance Defending Freedom sent letters Tuesday to 17 sheriff’s offices and police departments across the nation after they received complaints from an atheist group wrongly stating that displaying the official U.S. national motto, “In God We Trust,” on department vehicles is unconstitutional. […]
Could you point to any lawsuit FFRF filed as mentioned in your article? (Hint: they never filed any lawsuit.)
So… the headline here is mistaken. FFRF did not ‘sue’ anybody. They sent letters.