According to the Feb. 24 article, “In God We Trust-America” founder Jacquie Sullivan is “dedicated to seeing the national motto hung in every county and city office in the United States.” This is fine so long as she is willing to acknowledge that our original national motto was “E Pluribus Unum” and wasn’t replaced by “In God We Trust” until 1956.
If she insists on putting her personal religious belief on public walls, that might be OK, too, but only if she will fight just as hard for a companion plaque reading “In Allah We Have Faith,” and perhaps another that says “Buddha bless us,” plus plaques representing every religious belief held by all citizens, including at least one for the non-religious that disavows the existence of any deity. If she is not willing to fight for those too, she clearly does not support our nation’s religious freedom. If that is the case, perhaps she should relocate from the U.S., which respects the beliefs of every individual, to a nation which forces her specific beliefs on all its citizens. That is not freedom, but it seems to be what she actually wants.
Roy G. Wilson
Vancouver
