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Wed Nov 23, 2016, 08:39 AM Nov 2016

US atheist sues after Kentucky refuses 'IM GOD' licence plate



Bennie Hart says he used the number plate in Ohio without any problems

22 November 2016

An American atheist is suing officials in the US state of Kentucky after he was refused a personalised car licence plate which reads "IM GOD".

Bennie Hart says the point of the plate is to show the impossibility of disproving anyone's claim to being God.

But transport chiefs in the religiously conservative state ruled that it might distract other drivers and would be in bad taste.

Civil liberties campaigners have taken up Mr Hart's legal case.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38072149

He paid $10 extra for the "One Nation Under God" Ohio plate.
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Supremacists don't like it HAB911 Nov 2016 #1
I read it as "Instant Message" God. No more nonsensical than typing "amen" on Facebook. nt Still Blue in PDX Nov 2016 #2
Poor excuse to deny this. hrmjustin Nov 2016 #3
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