Ohio Bill Calls For Posting Mottos Mentioning God In Schools

On Tuesday, in another try to find ways to post references to God in school classrooms, the Ohio House of Representatives passed House Bill 184 and sent it on to the Ohio Senate. The bill provides that if a reasonably sized copy of the US motto"In God We Trust", or the Ohio motto "With God, All Things Are Possible", is donated to a school district, or if money is donated to purchase copies, the district must accept the donation and display the motto in a school classroom, auditorium, or cafeteria. By the way, in 2001, in ACLU v. Capitol Square Review & Advisory Bd., the federal 6th Circuit Court of Appeals (en banc) upheld Ohio's official motto against an Establishment Clause attack.