However, in April 2000, one year ago, the ACLU and a plaintiff, Rev. Matthew Peterson, objected to Ohio's use of the motto and challenged all of Ohio's official uses of the motto. It has appeared for years on the Ohio secretary of state stationery, on some state reports and on Ohio tax returns. The ACLU had asked the appeals court to reverse the 1998 decision by Judge Graham, and the court did. Attorney General Betty Montgomery carried the fight to the higher court when she appealed the April 2000 ruling. While the attorney general shored up the legal battle, several Christians shored up some spiritual help.
Faith is very much part of life.
We have references to God on our coins, we invoke God in the U.S. Senate, and we have acknowledged that a power greater than us was part of the founding of this nation.