‘In God We Trust’ May Become a Permanent Part of Georgia License Plates

Besides the obvious problems with this; It is a bad decision from an economics standpoint.
There are a lot more Christians than atheist in Georgia. If you’re trying to sell stickers for a dollar sell them to the larger group.

We can argue this from a separation church/state (making citizens pay to cover up something they don’t support? Really?), as long as it’s ruled a national motto, it seems odd that lawmakers would agree in this case but not on the larger scale. 

It’s a great desicion from a theocratic standpoint, though – if some shithead were to see a sticker covering the slogan, then it’d be the most easily vandalized statement that atheists exist in American history. Just rip the sticker off and boom! Instant warm glow from pretending everyone agrees with him, and being dumb enough to think making something invisible stops it from ever having existed.

Given the lengths they’ll go to against atheist billboards just saying we’re real people, it’s far better for the Christian supremacists if they’re in the majority and anyone else has to buy a sticker – and if someone’s opinion is gonna be easy to unfairly stifle, they’ll fight tooth and nail to make sure it isn’t them.

Ughh, 

Religious privilege, arrogance, and harassment…

The analogy for this would be if some state made permanent the wordings “The bible is mythology” on their license plates with an optional $1 sticker to cover it up.  That would ruffle some feathers and also be inappropriate.  This “In God we trust” is also inappropriate for the same reason.

I’m a Georgian and I can tell you with certainty that there will be vandalized vehicles or general harassment to people who have the slogan covered on their plates (if it passes).  Hopefully, it won’t be mine since there’s no way I would own property with “In God We Trust” marked on it.  I don’t know how I have survived being raised in this horribly ass-backwards place.

I wonder if it will be legal to use your own sticker, of the same size, to cover it.  Charging a tax to opt out would piss me off.  This obviously isn’t for revenue generation.  It’s for getting re-elected.

     Another sickening move by religious right-wing politicians. I wouldn’t have a problem with the original policy of Christians having the option to buy a sticker to put on their license plates with that phrase on it. Its freedom of speech/expression/ religion, whatever. But to force non-believers to either have that on their license plates or have to spend more of their money (that fact that its only $1 is besides the point) to cover it up is just wrong and a violation of our rights.
     This also just makes non-believers an easy target for vandalism by Christians and people of other religions. We know anyone with “in god we trust” covered up will be targeted and I think it will happen often.
     Glad I don’t live in Georgia, but this kind of stuff is sickening and makes me mad nonetheless.

The better argument is that forcing someone to pay for a sticker to cover up a message they don’t agree with violates the First Amendment right to freedom of speech, which includes the right not to speak. The U.S. Supreme Court has already held that a state may not punish a driver for covering up a political slogan like “Live Free or Die” on his license plate. http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=15210508422263730617&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr

so… how many of us with vandalized cars would it take to file a lawsuit against the state for harassment, damages, mental anguish?

The license plate is a state-controlled device, therefore is representative of the state and the constitution. This shouldn’t happen.

Is what irks me the most with all these religious themed license plates is this: If you own a car, you have a bumper, PUT A DAMN STICKER THERE. The car is your personal property and you can put whatever you want there that doesn’t also break a law.

Why can’t people just accept that fact and leave license plates to serve the purpose they were created for.

Add an oh:  In Good we trust. 
Or an aitch:  In God we thrust.
or would the religious call that defacement?

Let me have all “your”  paper currency dalestaines since you don’t want “In God We Trust” on your “property”.

I feel anguished already.

Haven’t touched cash in years, sorry.  Not for that reason, though – just technology.

P.S. Let’s not waste perfectly good energy nitpicking. That’s for aimless children.