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Post Offices
In Texas Have Taken Down Posters With "In God We Trust" on
them-Truth!
Summary of the eRumor You are urged to write
"In God We Trust" on the back of your mail in protest of
reports that 2 Post Offices in Texas were forced to remove posters
that displayed the nation's motto.
The Truth
According to an 11/17/02 article in
the Amarillo Globe-News, this controversy got started when a retired
engineer Frank Williamson donated small posters to Post Offices that
said "In God We Trust." They were ordered taken down
because of a prohibition against displaying most handbills and
fliers from individuals. There was a howl of protest. As
a result, the Postal Service announced that a poster of its own
design would be posted in all 38,000 Post Offices across the
country. That was helped by the discovery that a resolution in the
House of Representatives in 2000 had been passed encouraging posting
the motto in public buildings.
Last updated 1/16/03
A real example of the eRumor as it has
appeared on the Internet:
You may have heard in the news that a couple of Post Offices in TX have
been
forced to take down small posters that say"IN GOD WE
TRUST".The law they say
they are violating is something silly about electioneering posters. (is
God
running for office?)
Anyway, I heard proposed on a radio station show, that we all write
"IN GOD
WE TRUST" on the back of all our mail. After all, that is our
national
motto,
and on all the money we use to buy those stamps.I think it is a
wonderful
idea. We must take back our nation from all the people that think that
anything that offends them
should be removed. If you like this idea, please pass it on, and DO IT.
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