Posted on 11/04/2011 7:44:00 PM PDT by mnehring
Congressman Ron Paul’s presidential campaign duties kept him from participating in the House of Representatives vote on Wednesday, but the GOP hopeful says he is opposed to the recent bill to reaffirm “In God We Trust” as America’s motto.
During a House vote on Wednesday, only nine lawmakers voted against reaffirming the slogan to be used in governmental buildings across the United States. Paul was unable to it to Capitol Hill to cast his own voice but says that he would have voted against it.
"I would have voted 'no' not because I don't like the motto and don't think we can use it but 'no' because we were telling the states what to do," Paul tells the news organization The Hill.
President Barack Obama touched on the topic of the House vote during a speaking engagement in Wednesday, saying that he thought Congress had better things to do than to vote on keeping the slogan.
“You had legislation reaffirming that ‘In God We Trust’ is our motto?” asked Obama. “That’s not putting people back to work. I trust in God, but God wants to see us help ourselves by putting people back to work. “
This week’s vote marked the third time in under a decade that Congress voted on keeping the slogan.
Commentator Jon Stewart said during a Daily Show broadcast that wasting time to reaffirm the motto was equivalent to “renewing the wedding vows between God and America.” His own proposal for a replacement? “America: you’ve met our drones, now meet our people.”
By reaffirming the motto, the country will continue to inscribe it in public facilities and government institutions from coast-to-coast. It has been apparent on US currency during the late 1800s and is currently on all US coins and dollar bills. Officially it has been the US motto since the 1950s.
Of the nine votes against reaffirming the motto, the only nay from a Republican was cast by Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan. Amash has publically supported Ron Paul’s bid for the GOP nomination for the presidency.
I am sure Cut and Run would rather have “In Allah I Trust.
...Agreed, grandstanding, a waste of time and Our money. The same crowd of so called conservatives "growing" the Constitution again to justify their empty rhetoric. Good to see some reasoned folks still on FR, for now...
My impression of Ron Paul is that he doesn’t really know what to think but he thinks he knows exactly what to say and then he says it.
That’s true, but the motto was on our money a good thirty years before the Star Spangled Banner was made our official anthem. Before that, it was just a poem.
Lincoln, Wilson, and Hoover. There's three small government conservatives for ya /s
Thanks for the post.
If you read the resolution
Noooo!!!
They wouldn't do that, would they?
(sarc/)
Just one more reason in a long long list of reasons why I could never support this this this......you use your word to describe Paul here. If I did I’d use words that might get me zotted from FR.
NOT. Paul is even more disliked in Texas than Perry is and that's saying a lot, IMHO.
As a song, "The Star Spangled Banner" was one of many patriotic songs of the era, some of which have still survived. Although it didn't have official status as the national anthem until 1931, generations of schoolchildren learned to sing it along with the other patriotic songs of the era. This is how the words "In God is our trust" entered the American psyche.
During the Civil War, both sides thought they had God on their side. Most combatants do. Lincoln gave recognition to "In God We Trust", but a variation of the words had been sung for decades before that whenever someone started singing "The Star Spangled Banner".
Thanks for posting it...I did read it. I thought it was beautiful.
The fact that Paul doesn’t like Federal government telling States what to do is utterly stupid when we are talking about the ONE thing which underlies the philosophy of our Constitution that ALL states much honor—that we have GOD-given Natural Rights—All states should be required and forced to teach all children the Declaration and the U S Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It is the only thing which unites us....and it should.
I think the Federal Government should force the memorization of the Declaration of Independence. The brain exercise would do the children good. Since the communist Dewey—they quit teaching children and started brainwashing them and removing “God” as they removed the McGuffey Readers which was filled with the word God and Lord and We are God’s children.
So, this resolution is a push-back of the Marxists who are totally transforming this nation from One under God to One under Marx and Barney Frank.
lol
Thx for your post, but I am NOT a Paul supporter...
You can not have economics without human beings. If you think people will act moral with no “rules”,that you can separate nature from man, then you have never played sports.
Maybe, that is Paul’s flaw.
One Standard of Right and Wrong is necessary for our country-—just like one set of rules for baseball. Adopting Franks standards—throws out God’s standard and Paul should know that. All states are under God and not under Barney.
I know, it’s just that RuPaul is as un-Texan as they get.
RuRu is popular with shrimpers, no doubt about that.
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