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Friday July 14, 2006
U.S. Senate Passes Resolution Reaffirming National Motto: “In God We Trust”
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By John Jalsevac
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This past
Wednesday, July 12, the United States Senate unanimously passed
resolution S. Con. Res. 96, which requests senators and all American
citizens “To commemorate, celebrate, and reaffirm the national motto of
the United States on the 50th anniversary of its formal adoption.”
The passage of the Senate resolution comes only a few days after a
California federal trial judge dismissed the lawsuit filed by Michael
Newdow challenging the constitutionality of the American national
motto, "In God We Trust."
Co-sponsor of the resolution, Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson, in bringing
forward the resolution said that part of his motivation for so doing
was that it is “important to reaffirm our traditions at a time when
there are misguided court challenges to the fundamental principles that
have been a part of America since its birth.”
Focus on the Family Chairman James C. Dobson, Ph.D. responded to the
passage of the resolution, saying "It is heartening to see the men and
women elected to serve the people formally acknowledge once again the
true source of the blessings we enjoy as a nation. It has become
increasingly distressing to watch activist courts from one coast to the
other try to scrub every last vestige of our Christian heritage from
the public square -- whether it's ordering Ten Commandments displays
out of public buildings or ruling 'under God' in the Pledge of
Allegiance unconstitutional.
"Some will say this vote in the Senate is a meaningless symbolic
gesture, but what it symbolizes is vital to the future of the United
States and all of us who call her home. We will only continue to enjoy
the freedoms and greatness that have been our legacy for the last 230
years if we continue to acknowledge the Lord as the creator and
protector of our land. We call on the members of the House to follow
their colleagues' example and pass this resolution soon.
"As President Ronald Reagan said, if we ever cease to be a nation under God, we will be a nation gone under."
The phrase “In God We Trust” enjoys a long tradition of use in the
United States. One stanza of the Star Spangled Banner, written by
Francis Scott Key in 1814, has a version of the national motto,
proclaiming, “In God is our trust!” The phrase, however, did not become
the official motto of the United States until much later, when, on July
30, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed H. J. Res. 396 (84th
Congress).
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