{"id":8450,"date":"2009-11-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/13\/i-believe-license-plate-banned-by-judge\/"},"modified":"2009-11-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T12:00:00","slug":"i-believe-license-plate-banned-by-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/13\/i-believe-license-plate-banned-by-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I Believe&#8217; License Plate Banned By Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/wheels.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/11\/i-believe-license-banned-by-judge\/?hp\">wheels.blogs.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED STATES, November 11, 2009: A United States District Judge has struck down a Christian-themed license plate that had been approved by the South Carolina Legislature, reports the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Cameron Currie ruled that the plate was a violation of the First Amendment, which prohibits Congress from making a law &#8220;respecting an establishment of religion.&#8221; The South Carolina plate, issued by the state, featured an image of a cross in front of a stained-glass window, accompanied by the words &#8220;I Believe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whether motivated by sincerely held Christian beliefs or an effort to purchase political capital with religious coin, the result is the same,&#8221; Judge Currie wrote in her decision. &#8220;The statute is clearly unconstitutional and defense of its implementation has embroiled the state in unnecessary (and expensive) litigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: wheels.blogs.nytimes.com UNITED STATES, November 11, 2009: A United States District Judge has struck down a Christian-themed license plate that,&#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-8450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450","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=8450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}