It’s kinda boring actually (scroll down to the 7th from bottom of page). You’d think they could have come up with a better logo than that. It seems a bit nationalistic for a secular humanist organization.
Arizona: Golden Rule plate – Available to everyone. $17 of the fee goes to a special fund for promoting the Golden Rule in schools and communities in this state.
Louisiana: Life Center Ministries plate.
Various states/Texas: God Bless America/God Bless Texas plates.
Numerous states: Choose Life (one has a stork on it; another an image of an infant); Montana has a Planned Parenthood plate, though.
Not an exhaustive list, I’m sure. (I got tired of looking.)
BTW, Montana’s plates are freakin’ beautiful!
My favorite Florida license plate: here
Isn’t the Golden Rule just “treat others the way you want to be treated”? Is that from Christian theology or something? (I’m not saying it isn’t, I just wouldn’t know.)
I’ve seen “A55 FKL”. Almost perfect.
OMG! The NASCAR tag has a Rainbow Flag! Don’t people know what … Never mind I would prefer only one person at the design agency knew what it meant and slipped in the pile of proposals.
“Evan you won’t believe it! They picked the Rainbow Flag!”
Someone should start manufacturing those plastic plate surround things with slogans of you choice.
Reminds me of an incident at work years ago. Someone put up a notice on the noticeboard announcing Bible study classes to be held at 12:30 pm on Thursdays in the lower ground floor training room. Within minutes there was a garish poster up next to it announcing:
YOUR WORKPLACE DEVIL WORSHIP SOCIETY
WHEN: Meeting every Thursday.
TIME: 12:30 pm
WHERE: Lower ground floor training room.
PS please bring your own pagan fertility symbol.
Shortly afterwards both notices disappeared never to be seen again.
Well they need to get with the program. Americans have discovered that every square inch of viewable surface area can be rented. I’m sure the rest of the world will become just as lovely soon.
The floors of our supermarkets provide “consumer guidance” to the latest really good deals on laxatives. Our municipal sports stadiums are now encrusted with enormous neon corporate logos courtesy of the highest bidder. I see animated ads for the Mormon church on some web pages I visit. Naturally state governments don’t want to be left out. Naturally Constitutional distinctions become confusing for Floridians.
How does having an optional license plate support “the establishment of religion” in the sense that the framers would have recognized?
These are personal license plates which go on private vehicles. Yes, there are issued by the state of Florida for the purposes of vehicle identification. The themes are unnecessary as evidenced by the fact that the vast majority and the default plates have no special themes on them.
I find it hard to equate that with the Anglican Church that our founders were trying to get away from…
Nah. ROYGBIV, remember? That’s more like YRGBI.
How about the fact that the state manufactures it, distributes it, collects money for it–exclusively–and it limits the use of competing license plates and offers no alternatives to what it seems to consider the One True Religion? (Of course, if it offered alternatives, I don’t think that would make it OK.)
If I had to take a guess, this is an attempted provocation for a lawsuit in order to get the new Roberts court to overturn/review the high-wall doctrine/lemon test.
Maybe I’m just reading too much into this though.
Rabbi Hillel, actually. “What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow: this is the whole Law; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.”
Not original to him, though. The concept goes back to the ancient greeks, at least.
“Do not do to others what would anger you if done to you by others.” - Isocrates.
Rabbi Hillel might be one of those people who highly influenced Jesus, though: he was known as the greatest of teachers through the end of his life, from about 30 BC to 10 AD.
Also, invented the sandwich.
Sold. The man is now my God.
I’m sure he’s rolling in his grave right now.
I’ve only skimmed the thread, but from what I can tell, I’m kinda suprised we made it to page 2 without mention of the Best Florida Plate Ever.
I kinda want Ohio to offer “I Believe…” plates, so I can get one that says “IN BAAL.”
Or maybe “IN TUBGRL.”
Doh.
Anyway, the Ohio BMV has a nifty site where you can check the availability of vanity and specialty plates. I am so going to get this one when it’s time to renew.
I am totally stealing this.
Why, yes, I am a non-participating philatelist. I also love to not run, whenever I have time for it. I cherish the hours I spend neither singing Karaoke nor listening to it.
That particular question was argued to death and back twice in a previous thread in this here forum, and I’m not trying to revive it. I was only joshing.
Okay, bub, just this one more time. Listen up. The part of your vehicle not assigned to the state’s licensing declaration is completely available for your personal expression. You are free to preach your own sermon on almost all of that surface, until it looks like a Sprint Cup NASCAR racecar. I don’t care about that. Those little aluminum tags, though, are made, approved, and sold by the state. The state is bound by the constitution to stay out of the religion business. You can look it up. Try www.au.org
Why not teach the “Ethic of Reciprocity”? I was under the impression that the Golden Rule terminology was largely a Christian construct. Regardless, it’s sponsored by a group known as Arizona Interfaith Movement whose mission is:
I’m all for religious tolerance, but when it comes to states raising money for charities, I kinda prefer it’s kept secular.