The Truth:
We went to the MSNBC site and found the poll to be
real. At the time of our investigation the results were a
surprising 50% tie with over one million votes in the poll.
This motto began appearing on coins
after
the civil war when Secretary of the Treasury received many letters of appeal urging that the
United States recognize the Deity on United States coins.
After several acts of Congress the motto was adopted but it wasn't until
1957 that these words were found on American currency.
Usually, on a news site when find a poll,
it is linked to a news story, in this case an old story from 2005. What the original sender of this
email failed to tell the reader is that atheist Michael Newdow was
seeking to remove “In God We Trust” from U.S. coins and dollar bills,
claiming in a federal lawsuit filed in November 2005 that the motto is an
unconstitutional endorsement of religion. His suit was rejected in
June, 2006.
On August 19th, 2008 we revisited the
poll to find over 4 million people with 67% in favor of keeping the
motto.
On August 22, 2008 we checked back to
find over 6.5 million participated in the poll with a strong majority in
favor for the motto
As of August 28, 2008
there
were 7,786,548 responses to the poll with an 80% tally in favor for
keeping the motto.
CLICK here to take part in the poll
CLICK here for the Associated Press Story on the MSNBC site.
Result of the MSNBC poll
as of August 17 2008
Result of the MSNBC
poll as of August 19 2008
Results of the MSNBC
poll as of August 22 2008
updated 08/28/08
