From the Associated Press
Published: November 10, 2009
A federal judge ruled that the state cannot issue license plates showing the image of a cross in front of a stained glass window along with the phrase “I Believe.” Judge Cameron M. Currie of Federal District Court said in her ruling that the license plates were unconstitutional because they violate the First Amendment ban on establishment of religion. The fight over the plates started shortly after Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer helped push the legislation through in 2008. Groups including Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee challenged the law. Judge Currie ordered the state to cover those groups’ legal expenses.
As we discussed in 
If God can’t keep you out of trouble…
Sunday, July 19th, 2009…maybe invoking His Name four times in your apology can bail you out of trouble. South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, in a lot of hot water over his intercontinental affair with an Argentinian-woman-who’s-not-his-wife, is playing the God card in a ballsy gambit to stay in office and salvage his reputation.
Sanford issued a formal apology to his constituents today, published by newspapers across South Carolina. Apparently if you abuse the trust of the voters, go AWOL for four days, and fly to South America to “hike the old Appalachian Trail” with your lover instead of spending time with your sons ON FATHER’S DAY, there’s no price to pay as long as you say “sorry” and pepper the apology with the name of the Lord.
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