Comments on: Cost of Capitol Visitor Center Set to Jump Once More http://washingtonindependent.com/49787/cost-of-capitol-visitor-center-set-to-jump-once-more National News in Context Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:30:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: D. Edward Farrar http://washingtonindependent.com/49787/cost-of-capitol-visitor-center-set-to-jump-once-more/comment-page-1#comment-41752 D. Edward Farrar Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:24:36 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=49787#comment-41752 If DeMint is so worried about ignoring "America’s unique religious heritage and the role that heritage played in the founding of the Republic", then why the focus on things which only date back to the 1950s? That's when "In God We Trust" was made a "national motto" by act of Congress - prior to that "E Pluribus Unum" was the motto we, as a nation, were proud of. Likewise the Pledge of Allegiance was recited for many years by many school children without the words "Under God" in it and somehow the country survived. <br><br>If the congressman wishes to honor the role religion played in the founding of our nation, then he should go back to the only overtly religious phrase used by those founders: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness". Far better to celebrate THAT religious heritage, than to spend $150,000 trying to bolster religious posturing left over from the McCarthy era. If DeMint is so worried about ignoring “America’s unique religious heritage and the role that heritage played in the founding of the Republic”, then why the focus on things which only date back to the 1950s? That's when “In God We Trust” was made a “national motto” by act of Congress – prior to that “E Pluribus Unum” was the motto we, as a nation, were proud of. Likewise the Pledge of Allegiance was recited for many years by many school children without the words “Under God” in it and somehow the country survived.

If the congressman wishes to honor the role religion played in the founding of our nation, then he should go back to the only overtly religious phrase used by those founders: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. Far better to celebrate THAT religious heritage, than to spend $150,000 trying to bolster religious posturing left over from the McCarthy era.

]]> By: aveteran http://washingtonindependent.com/49787/cost-of-capitol-visitor-center-set-to-jump-once-more/comment-page-1#comment-41736 aveteran Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:00:50 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=49787#comment-41736 Enough of this revisionist crap. E Pluribus Unum was the original motto, and that (if they want to be historically correct) is all that should be engraved. Enough of this revisionist crap. E Pluribus Unum was the original motto, and that (if they want to be historically correct) is all that should be engraved.

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