George Washington also owned slaves. Not everything he said or did is to be accepted as gospel truth. The founding fathers got somethings right and some things wrong.

Your response of “If you truly desire freedom FROM religion, maybe this is not the country for you.” is offensive at the highest degree. The first amendment was written specifically to protect all of us from self righteous people like yourself who would want impose his version of god and faith on the rest of us. May be you want an America that is exactly the same as Saudi Arabia where you have NO choice.

America has always been a secular democracy with the freedom of religion guaranteed. If you want to worship a rock instead of Jesus your free to do so. Even the most faithful are atheists about every god except one. You can’t accept every god as being the one true god.

Well Mr. Franks we’re all just worm food, so do us a favor and resign because we all need people in congress who want to solve problems and not pander to religious for votes.

BTW – in who’s god do we trust? The god who flew the jets on 9-11? The god who allowed priest to attack children? The god who doesn’t like homosexuals? What a joke!

In support of this statement, please take a few moments and read George Washington’s first Thanksgiving Address http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica  /firsts/thanksgiving/thankstext.html

George Washington’s statements clearly show that the Founding Fathers of the United States and the early leadership of this country knew where their Wisdom was based.

I completely agree that our country has significant matters to address, but without a foundation built on (not only an understanding of God, but the desire to continue to further understand) God, our people and our country will no longer succeed or prosper.

If you truly desire freedom FROM religion, maybe this is not the country for you.

Very Respectfully,

Quite frankly, I get more than a little offended when these self-serving individuals band together to mess with the Pledge of Allegiance (mid-fifties added “under God”) and changing the American motto to “In god We Trust”.

In my opinion these people are putting a “bumper sticker” on MY car that I don’t like or agree with. They are also sticking their big fat finger in the eye of the traditional separation of church and state.

It has long been accepted that “freedom of religion” also means freedom FROM religion and I don’t think a majority of voters had ANY intention of increasing their job descriptions to include pandering to the religious extreme in such objectionable manner.

Count me among voters who prefer action on matters more relevant to resolving current economic challenges.

Do they know NOTHING about the intent of the founding fathers in terms of keeping religion and state miles apart? To those who think this “In God We Trust” thing is kosher, how would you feel if it were changed to “In Allah We Trust”?

As citizens we can only blame ourselves. We voted these people into office and keep voting them in, term after term. Elections are supposed to be term limits already. But an undereducated brain-dead electorate has abandoned its duty to throw the rascals out.