Christian Post - Secular Group Objects to Quotes About God on US Passports

By Jeff Schapiro, Christianpost.com

A secular group sent a letter to the U.S. State Department last week to oppose the printing of quotations that refer to God on U.S. passports. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) has been protesting religious references on passports since 2007, a press release states. . . .

Jordan Sekulow, executive director for the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), says it is constitutional for the quotes to appear on passports. The Establishment Clause, which says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion," was not designed to prevent "benign" references to God or faith from being made in government, Sekulow says, and the passport quotes endorse neither a specific faith nor a specific denomination.

"I think what they don't like about it, and why they would want it to be held unconstitutional, is because it disproves their entire point that America somehow has no heritage of God or religion...in our history," said Sekulow. . . .

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