Perhaps you have heard about the resolution before the Colorado State Board of Education asking public schools to display this simple motto.
Atheists are up in arms, and civil libertarian groups are threatening to sue.
A little history is in order. The motto of the United States was first put on a coin during the Civil War. Congress passed the Mint Act in 1864, and President Lincoln signed the bill. The first coin to bear the motto was a two-cent piece. In the 1950s, President Eisenhower signed legislation putting the phrase on all our currency and making it our national motto.