Photo: Screnshot from kentucky.gov
Remember the principle of separating church and state? It does not work everywhere, and authorities are to blame.
We have long left the age where the church and religion were the pillars of a community. Laws and rules govern every place in this world, and nobody needs a priest or a pope to tell them that it is wrong to disrespect or harm somebody. We have laws for that, because the whole “divine punishment” thing took too long to work, and nobody knows if it did operate at all.
We came across a news story regarding custom license plates, and we cannot help but feel outraged and amused at the same time. This is the story of a fellow named Bennie Hart, who wanted to use a license plate combination that reads “IM GOD.”
Mr. Hart has employed this combination while living in Ohio, but he sadly found that he cannot do the same in Kentucky. Bennie’s license plate “IM GOD” was his for 12 years in Ohio, and it even read “One Nation Under God” below his custom selection of letters.
He was displeased to find that it was refused in Kentucky. The basis for the rejection was that the combination might distract other drivers, and that it is “in bad taste.” What about donks, then?
Bennie Hart did not take “No” for an answer here, and filed a lawsuit against the officials of the state that were responsible for the decision. According to the BBC, civil liberties campaigners have taken up his case against transportation secretary Greg Thomas.
The motives of the suit are that the refusal hinders Mr. Hart’s right of free speech, which is assumed to be secured by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
We took the time to browse through Kentucky’s license plate configurator, and the “IAMGOD” combination was not forbidden in the system. On the contrary, we found that the system was rather unrestricted except for a few words that we are not going to place in this article.
If you must know, Mr. Hart is an atheist, and he wanted the combination that reads “IAM GOD” because it shows people’s inability of disproving anyone’s claim to being God. We respect his choice and stand by this endeavor just because it is a fun thing to do against unreasonably conservative religious government officials.
We came across a news story regarding custom license plates, and we cannot help but feel outraged and amused at the same time. This is the story of a fellow named Bennie Hart, who wanted to use a license plate combination that reads “IM GOD.”
Mr. Hart has employed this combination while living in Ohio, but he sadly found that he cannot do the same in Kentucky. Bennie’s license plate “IM GOD” was his for 12 years in Ohio, and it even read “One Nation Under God” below his custom selection of letters.
He was displeased to find that it was refused in Kentucky. The basis for the rejection was that the combination might distract other drivers, and that it is “in bad taste.” What about donks, then?
Bennie Hart did not take “No” for an answer here, and filed a lawsuit against the officials of the state that were responsible for the decision. According to the BBC, civil liberties campaigners have taken up his case against transportation secretary Greg Thomas.
The motives of the suit are that the refusal hinders Mr. Hart’s right of free speech, which is assumed to be secured by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
We took the time to browse through Kentucky’s license plate configurator, and the “IAMGOD” combination was not forbidden in the system. On the contrary, we found that the system was rather unrestricted except for a few words that we are not going to place in this article.
If you must know, Mr. Hart is an atheist, and he wanted the combination that reads “IAM GOD” because it shows people’s inability of disproving anyone’s claim to being God. We respect his choice and stand by this endeavor just because it is a fun thing to do against unreasonably conservative religious government officials.
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