(CNSNews.com) — This fall, public school students in South Dakota will return to their classes greeted by the message “In God We Trust,” the national motto of the United States, prominently displayed in their schools’ hallways.
In March, Governor Kristi Noem (R) signed SB55 into law. The law states, “Beginning in the 2019-2020 school year, the national motto of the United States, ‘In God We Trust,’ shall be displayed in each public school. The display shall be located in a prominent location within each public school.
“The display may take the form of a mounted plaque, student artwork, or any other appropriate form as determined by the school principal. The display shall be easily readable and may be no smaller than twelve inches wide by twelve inches high. For the purposes of this section, a prominent location is a school entryway, cafeteria, or other common area where students are most likely to see the national motto display.” more
A shame the Ten commandments and the Bible can’t be displayed too.
They used to serve as a common moral basis the all Americans had in common, something that united us with a common ground.
But as the USSC said when banning the Ten Commandments “If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments are to have any effect at all, it will be to induce the schoolchildren to read, meditate upon, perhaps to venerate and obey, the Commandments.” (Stone v. Graham, 449 U.S. 39 (1980), look it up if you like).
So the basis of our formerly common morality, the basis our country was founded on, the basis that governed our overall conduct as a people. is now illegal.
FWIW, “Thou shalt not murder” was one of those common moral precepts, and you can see the effect in the news on an almost daily basis (like in El Paso).
Small, but still a counter-punch against
socialist humanist godlessnes and therefore
worthy of note.
Kristi Noem for President in 2024 !
Yay!
Anon 9:42AM
A small beginning step.
Remember Rule #1, “Don’t spook the horses”.
Let everyone get used to the National Motto, THEN slowly introduce the Ten Commandments, etc.
When the socialists bring a lawsuit their argument can be countered easily because nothing is stopping them from worshiping their god, the state.
I think I disagree with this, because I’m not seeing the beneficial purpose.
Aren’t there enough issues to fight over right now? Why would we want to poke the bear, make unnecessary legal fights and fodder for the anti-Christians, give them yet something else to scream about leading up to the election?
Why do we have to give them an argument to yell about how the “right wing” is anti-diversity and exclusionary.
The motto has been upheld on our currency and seals because of tradition and ceremony. However, it hasn’t upheld as a new statement to be proclaimed on public schools.
So now in will come ACLU, Michael Newdow, et al. to declare loudly in the media and courts that “the right” really has an intent to be exclusionary, so don’t let them get more power.
Another point of view, from Theodore Roosevelt, 1907, regarding using the motto on coins, because he didn’t see a religious value:
“… My own feeling in the matter is due to my very firm conviction that to put such a motto on coins, or to use it in any kindred manner, not only does no good, but does positive harm, and is in effect irreverence, which comes dangerously close to sacrilege… Any use which tends to cheapen it, and, above all, any use which tends to secure its being treated in a spirit of levity, is from every standpoint profoundly to be regretted… it seems to me eminently unwise to cheapen such a motto by use on coins… In all my life I have never heard any human being speak reverently of this motto on the coins or show any signs of its having appealed to any high emotion in him, but I have literally, hundreds of times, heard it used as an occasion of and incitement to … sneering … Every one must remember the innumerable cartoons and articles based on phrases like ‘In God we trust for the 8 cents’… Surely, I am well within bounds when I say that a use of the phrase which invites constant levity of this type is most undesirable.”
If people actually lived by the Ten Commandments, the need for lawyers and legislators would nearly disappear.
God Bless South Dakota. They wouldn’t dare try this in Godless Washington state. Tragically sad.
Every state should require this in the public schools, followed up with assemblies which explain the reasonableness of belief and trust in a Creator. Parents who disagree always have the option of home-schooling or private school.
Bout F’n Time!
“Every state should require this in the public schools, followed up with assemblies which explain the reasonableness of belief and trust in a Creator. Parents who disagree always have the option of home-schooling or private school.”
As do Christian parents. Who’s god are we trusting anyways?