Coins & Currency, a kerfluffle?

It is a fine +33ºF and overcast morning here in Old Saint Paul, Minnesota

It is a fine +33ºF and overcast morning here in Old Saint Paul, Minnesota, and I am enjoying my mug of organically & shade-grown, Fair-Trade, Sumatran-Roast coffee on my back porch. Lacking anything to post about, I went into my email for inspiration.

A week ago I received the following in an email from Elizabeth, a woman with whom I worked on some genealogy research:

“Here is your chance to let the media know where the people stand on our faith in God, as a nation. NBC is taking a poll on ‘In God We Trust’ to stay on our American currency. Please send this to every Christian you know so they can vote on this important subject. Please do it right away, before NBC takes this off the web page.”

As far as I know, there is no movement of any size in favor of removing “In God We Trust” from our coinage and currency, the poll was running 85% in favor of retaining the motto at the time I checked it and the Supreme Court in the case, Lynch v. Donnelly, decided in 1984 to uphold the motto because it has “…lost through rote repetition any significant religious content…so-called acts of ‘ceremonial deism’ that have lost their ‘history, character, and context’…”

As the issue appears to be settled, the majority of Americans (who actually care) wish it to remain on our coinage & currency as suggested by a Gallup poll taken September 19-21, 2003, and the Supreme Court decision of March 5, 1984, why then am I bothering to write about this?

Because of one word in the following sentence: “Please send this to every Christian you know so they can vote on this important subject.”

Why did she exclude Jews & Muslims? All three of the major monotheistic religions believe in the same God.

I did not forward the email (I never forward any email).

Take heart, Liz, “In God We Trust” will remain on our coinage & currency.