“I was offended that I have to be ‘prayed over’ by a license plate… What happened to keeping church and state separate?”
What did the plate look like?
And thus begins another episode of anti-religious zealotry.
1. Vanity plates are paid for by the people who want them.
2. The message on the plate is not offensive (to smart, rational people).
3. The message on the plate is not bigoted (to smart, rational people).
4. The state is not endorsing religion by allowing that verse to be printed on a license plate, no more than it’s endorsing “Marys Stang,” “My Toyz” or any other dumb thing people decide to have put on their plates.
It astounds me the lengths people will go through to scrub religion off the face of the earth. What’s wrong with a person who has, at her own expense, a vanity plate with a religious verse on it? We already have license plates that run the gamut from animal spaying and neutering, to breast cancer awareness, to whatever other cause the state governments come up with on the taxpayer dime, and many times those plates are fundraisers for the causes they endorse.
In this case, we’re talking about a vanity plate, and it offended the woman not because she had to have it on her car, but merely because she had to look at it one time on someone else’s car.
We’re getting closer and closer to the point where the free exercise clause of the constitution will be amended to include, “as long as it’s done absolutely in a small dark room in the basement of a warehouse in a bad neighborhood on Fridays in May.”
We tracked down the woman who lodged the complaint, and she declined an on-camera interview. She says frankly, she’s dismayed the state didn’t keep her complaint anonymous.
Go figure. Although I can’t say I’m surprised. People who don’t use their brains very often are usually offended when questioned about their idiocy.
Source: KOMO News via Tonguetied