Our National Motto? No good. Two lawyers (big shock there) have a problem with it being placed on a federal building:

The words appear on every dollar bill and US coin. They are displayed at the entrance to the US Senate and above the Speaker’s chair in the House.

But when local officials in North Carolina placed “In God We Trust” on the front of the Davidson County Government Center, they soon found themselves in federal court facing a complaint that they were violating the separation of church and state.

The display was mounted in 18-inch letters that passing motorists could see on nearby Interstate 85. “If you are going to get sued, you may as well get sued for big letters,” says Larry Potts, vice chairman of the Davidson County Commission.

Of course, immediately, we get the B defense… Oh, you don’t know what the B defense is? It’s what I like to call the two predictable responses you will get from someone idiotically trying to get some religious symbol or slogan removed from something or somewhere its been:

A: “I’m an atheist, and seeing it there creates a hostile environment for my fragile worldview.”

or

B: “I’m a Christian, but even I can see that it’s plainly wrong…”

Witnesseth, therefore, the B defense in action:

Two local lawyers who conduct business in the county building objected to what they saw as the use of public property to present a religious message. “It is the semantic equivalent of putting up a sign that says Davidson County believes in the Christian God,” says Michael Lea, a Thomasville, N.C., lawyer who filed suit with Charles Lambeth to have the display removed.

“I am a Christian and have been on the governing board of the local church. It is not that I am anti-Christian,” he says. “I just don’t think it should be up on a government building.”

Forget that it’s our national motto. Our National Motto shouldn’t be on a government building.

This is the point to which the staunch separationists will go to make damned sure we never speak the name of God. Ironically, however, we still haven’t heard a peep from any of the hypocrites on the US Army’s guidelines for handling the Koran and how it’s in place only for the Koran and not the Torah or Talmud, or the Bible.

Nope. Our national motto is the real problem here.

Source: Christian Science Monitor via Tongue Tied