Governor Patrick Morrisey speaks at a press conference on September 8, 2025 and announced that the state received 2,500 donated signs “in God We Trust” for schools. (Photo by Will Price/West Virginia Legislative Photography)
Governor Patrick Morrisey held a press conference last week to show some religious posters donated by a mobile phone provider to place in West Virginia classroom.
During this year’s legislative period A Law It was said goodbye that all public schools – including public charter schools – public universities and universities represent a “permanent poster or a framed copy of the US motto in God that we trust”.
These posters were donated by Patriot Mobile, which describes themselves as “America’s only Christian conservative wireless providers”. If you wonder what this means, according to an e -mail that I have received, part of the company’s proceeds goes “to organizations that fight for the rights of first change, the rights of the second change, the holiness of life and support veterans and first aids of military.”
Quenton King wrote a comment about how legal organizations in our public schools leave this and how the company has taken over several school authorities in Texas.
Yes, “in God, whom we trust” is the motto of the United States, but the legislators urge this because of the mention of God.
Senator Mike Azinger, R-Wood, who sponsored the law for three years until his farewell. said He wanted to “give God the honor for this calculation. If America stays in our heart in our hearts and West Virginia stays in our hearts with this motto, we will be fine.”
The Republicans operate this law as an excuse to blur the border between the church and the state. But not for all churches, only for the Christian Church.
Why is the state trying to force a religion to do a religion? After all, around 31% of West Virgin are not connected and identify 3% as Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu or other world religions.
The Republicans often say that things went downhill in the USA when “We took God out of schools“They refer to a judgment of the U.S. Court of Justice in 1962, in which the school-sponal prayer has violated the clause on the first adjustment, in which the government cannot set up religion or prefer a religion to someone else. But like anyone who has passed a final exam on Friday evening, we can often speak in our public schools.
And let’s not forget that it led to it in the 19th century when prayer was a regular part of the school day Battle Between Protestant and Catholics, about which prayers should be said and which version of the Bible should be used.
When Morrisey signed the Senate Bill 280 to the law, he said: “We have to make sure that we teach children about the founding managers of our country – a real and precise retail of citizenship, American life and history.”
In history lessons, the students will learn that “in God we trust” do not the motto of our founding fathers. It was only in 1956 the US motto and replaced From another – “by many, one” – which was proposed in 1776 as the motto of the country and adopted in 1782.
The government of President Dwight D. Eisenhower urged itself in the era of the Cold War to change the motto in order to further distinguish the United States from the Soviet Union and other communist countries. evangelist Billy Graham Back then had a lot of influence on his administration.
If parents want their children to learn something about religion, there are countless churches throughout the state that they can take with them for services or youth groups.
And if parents want their child to be trained over God every day, they can teach them at home or send them to a Christian or Catholic school. Isn’t that one of the purposes of the $ 5,267.38 Hope scholarship every year?
“In God, we trust” Signs will do nothing to feed the hungry children in West Virginia, to improve Math and read Knowledge or underpaid teachers give an raise. It only feeds the republican’s ego who want voters to believe that they are good Christians without doing the real work, helping the impoverished and feeding the hungry.
