SOUTH Carolina’s Lieutenant Governor, who clearly has more money than sense, declared this week that he is willing to put up $4,000 of his own money so his state can become the first in the US to issue tacky “I Believe” license plates with the image of a cross and a stained glass window.
What is it with these people? Don’t they realise that religious symbols on vehicles automatically identify the occupants as delusional dorks – and a menace on the roads to boot?
A while back Florida had the idea of issuing a similar plate. But good sense prevailed, and the idiotic plan was ditched.
According to Yahoo, Lt Gov Andre Bauer helped push the measure through the General Assembly, saying it gives people a way to express their beliefs, adding:
I’m all about freedom of speech.
OK, so how about “I don’t believe” with a cross in a trashcan, then?
He also said that the state’s recently-passed religious bills, which enabled the piety plates, are a reaction to the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups which are perceived as threatening South Carolinians’ beliefs and traditions.
People who support Judeo-Christian values are ever under fire now. It’s like they expect folks who are believers just to roll over because they’re scared of the ACLU.
T Jeremy Gunn, Director of the ACLU’s Program of Freedom of Religion and Belief retorted:
This is an example of the Government’s underhanded attempts to endorse one particular religious viewpoint over all others under the guise of neutral education. Religion belongs where it prospers best: with individuals, families and religious communities.
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
June 14th, 2008 at 7:48 am
‘It’s all about freedom of speech.’ Yeah, right. It’s all about religious politics, which is a vile and poisonous thing. Christians should be even more wary of this than atheists, but it seems they’re too dumb to spot the obvious problem. You weld religion to politics so they become impossible distinguish, and you haven’t got a free society. You’ve got Iran, Saudi Arabia, or at best Northern Ireland in the days of self-rule.
June 16th, 2008 at 11:30 am
When all the uptight godbotherers have little fish on their cars you can already spot the loony without these plates.
Not cost effectve either - couldn’t they just get ‘RETARD’ tattooed across the forehead?
Love that ‘cross in a trashcan’ logo though - I could put that to good use. Is it available anywhere?
June 19th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Maybe they could drive crappy cars with no airbags and vague brakes and trust in jesus to save them in a crash.
Nb - Compulsory mollycoddling car safety devices are annoying and the law should be changed. Plus classic car use is actually greener when similar engine sizes are involved and should be encouraged