{"id":8107,"date":"2009-08-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/09\/south-carolina-attorney-general-backs-religious-license-plates\/"},"modified":"2009-08-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T12:00:00","slug":"south-carolina-attorney-general-backs-religious-license-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/09\/south-carolina-attorney-general-backs-religious-license-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Attorney General Backs Religious License Plates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesunnews.com\/news\/local\/v-print\/story\/1013928.html\">www.thesunnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>August 8, 2009: South Carolina&#8217;s top prosecutor, Attorney General Henry McMaster, argued in a memo Friday that the contested &#8220;I Believe&#8221; license plate&#8211;which features images of a stained-glass window and a cross&#8211;does not promote Christianity over other religions or atheism.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that South Carolina&#8217;s more than 100 specialty plates include one that says &#8220;In Reason We Trust,&#8221; which a secular humanist group sponsored. &#8220;The plate is a personal statement of the motorist, not the state,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Americans United for Separation of Church and State sued state officials last year, saying the government&#8217;s approval of the plates was an endorsement of Christianity&#8211;and therefore a violation of the First Amendment. <\/p>\n<p>The current issue appears to be not the &#8220;I Believe&#8221; plate itself, but the fact that it was specifically approved by the legislature: &#8220;The Christian-only religious specialty plate is the only religious one the legislature put its stamp of approval on,&#8221; Stevens said. She also pointed out that since license plates are the property of the state, they should not promote any particular religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.thesunnews.com August 8, 2009: South Carolina&#8217;s top prosecutor, Attorney General Henry McMaster, argued in a memo Friday that the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}