{"id":4866,"date":"2006-06-13T09:47:02","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T14:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2006\/06\/13\/under-god\/"},"modified":"2006-06-13T09:47:02","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T14:47:02","slug":"under-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2006\/06\/under-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Under God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">A federal judge on Monday rejected a lawsuit from an atheist who said having the phrase &quot;In God We Trust&quot; on U.S. coins and dollar bills violated his First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">U.S. District Judge Frank C. Damrell Jr. said the minted words amounted to a secular national slogan that did not trample on Michael Newdow&#8217;s avowed religious views.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;There is no proper allegation that the government compelled plaintiff to affirm a repugnant belief in monotheism,&quot; Damrell said in dismissing the suit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Newdow, a Sacramento doctor and lawyer, also is engaged in an ongoing effort to have the Pledge of Allegiance banned from public schools because it contains the words &quot;under God.&quot;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/ap_news\/California2\/CA_In_God_We_Trust_Lawsuit_241081CA.shtml\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/article.png\" width=\"76\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope he is a better doctor than he is a lawyer. If not interviewing his ex-patients might be difficult without breaking Levitical law about seances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge on Monday rejected a lawsuit from an atheist who said having the phrase &quot;In God We Trust&quot; on U.S. coins and dollar bills violated his First Amendment&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}