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Singing "God Bless America" at the Pentagon memorial dedication, September 11, 2008. In 1940, "God Bless America" was the official campaign song for both President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his Republican opponent, Wendell Willkie. At that time, the song represented cultural and religious tolerance. [11]
A phrase similar to "In God we trust" appears in the final stanza of "The Star-Spangled Banner". Written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key (and later adopted as the U.S. national anthem on March 3, 1931 by U.S. President Herbert Hoover), the song contains an early reference to a variation of the phrase: "And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust ...
The first use of the term in a Supreme Court opinion is in Justice Brennan's dissenting opinion in Lynch v. Donnelly, 465 U.S. 668 (1984)....I would suggest that such practices as the designation of "In God We Trust" as our national motto, or the references to God contained in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag can best be understood, in Dean Rostow's apt phrase, as a form a "ceremonial ...
If this is the true Christian message, the "God Bless the USA" Bible is hardly consistent with the Christian point of view. The prayer of some Christians is "God bless everybody, no exceptions."
A religious exemption is a legal privilege that exempts members of a certain religion from a law, regulation, or requirement. Religious exemptions are often justified as a protection of religious freedom, and proponents of religious exemptions argue that complying with a law against one's faith is a greater harm than complying against a law that one otherwise disagrees with due to a fear of ...
"America First and America Efficient" – Charles Evans Hughes "He has kept us out of war." – Woodrow Wilson 1916 U.S. presidential campaign slogan "He proved the pen mightier than the sword." – Woodrow Wilson 1916 U.S. presidential campaign slogan "War in the East, Peace in the West, Thank God for Woodrow Wilson."
God bless #45, 47.” It had a few likes, and a few commenters joined him in his celebration. He was downstairs in the kitchen making coffee, and I was upstairs avoiding him.
Global trade records obtained by the AP indicate that about 120,000 copies of the Republican nominee's "God Bless the USA" Bible were shipped from China's eastern city of Hangzhou to the U.S ...