The United States of America was founded to get away from an oppressive government, which demanded that the public belong to one religion (The Church of England.) WE ARE NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION.
In our Constitution, it is stated that the government can't favor one religion over another, and that religious matters and matters of state are to remain SEPARATED.
Having "In God We Trust" on our currency not only violates the Separation of Church and State, it also violates the religious rights of every non-christian American citizen in this country.
The whole point of that part of the First Amendment is that our government MAY NOT identify itself as belonging to one religion or another, and by using "In God We Trust" as our national motto, the government is alienating people belonging to any non-christian religion.
The phrase wasn't even put on our currency until July of 1956, when President Eisenhower approved it as an attempt to claim a moral high ground, and to demonize the communist Soviets.
We, the undersigned, demand that the christianity-favoring phrase "In God We Trust" be removed from our currency immediately, and that we return to the previous motto, "E. pluribus unum," or any other phrase that neither promotes nor dispraises any religion.
