Conservatives Seek Support For God Talk In Public Life

Forward, April, 2004 by Colton, Miriam

Colton, Miriam Forward 04-02-2004 Congressional conservatives are struggling to build support for a new bill that would limit the ability of judges to prohibit government acknowledgment of God. Known as "The Constitution Restoration Act of 2004," the bill would prevent federal courts from ruling on issues such as the legality of the national motto "In God We Trust" or the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.

The bill was introduced in February by two Alabama Republicans, Rep. Robert Aderholt and Senator Richard Shelby, and has the support of Roy Moore, the former chief justice of Alabama, who lost his job after defying a federal order directing him to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments from the rotunda of the state courthouse. Critics...

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