Faith advocate wants to put Ten Commandments on the road (license plates)

[Ediacara]

Faith advocate wants to put Ten Commandments on the road


June Griffin

By SUE McCLURE
Staff Writer

Dayton woman seeking specialty plates for vehicles

Thou shalt have another license plate to choose from — at least, if June Griffin gets her way.

Griffin, of Dayton, Tenn., has been crisscrossing the state for the past six years, urging county commissions to support the Ten Commandments. She's now going to head up an effort to create a specialty license plate proclaiming ''Tennessee for the Ten Commandments.''

''I'd like to get it done immediately, if not sooner,'' Griffin said. ''The Lord has sent me to do it, and I don't want to make any money off it. I'm doing it for the pure love of God and country.''

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[mac2]

1. Talk about wearing your religion on your sleeve....

My Lord told me...you are arrogant and a braggart.

She's doing it to force her religious belief on others. Get their religious guy in the White House, rule the world, etc.

[alittlelark]

2. Yet another Pharisee

If Jesus comes again, she and her ilk will be 'thrown out of the temple'.

[thebaghwan]

3. God spoke to me today through my cat. He told me all repukes are

assholes and damned to hell. Let's see you beat that one, Pat?

WAIT A MINUTE! ANOTHER MESSAGE IS COMING IN!

[saigon68]

22. My Cat Coughed up a Hairball-- We're going to name it Dick Cheney

My dog took a dump. We're going to name the pile, "Paul Wolfowitz"


LOL

[SCDem]

Re: Specialized/Different License Plates

I really think all license plates should be the same for whatever state you are in. I think college license plates, politician license plates can lead to a cop letting someone off just because he pulls for such and such school. I don't think they are a good idea.

[Ediacara]

9. Montana actually has A LOT of specialty plates and I think they're great

Although, we do have to suffer this license plate, but since all the others are so much better, I've never seen this plate (which looks suspiciously like the Open Land plate...):


The standard Montana license plate is really rather bland and stupid:

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Couldn't "Pets Make Great Partners"

be taken the wrong way? Or is Montana really going to push for marriage to be extended way beyond where it is now?

[Ediacara]

17. LOL

It's the Humane Society plate, but ya, I guess it could be taken the wrong way... LOL

[gemini62167]

31. Just get a bumper sticker.

Gosh all this time a I thought a license plate was to provide your vehicle license number so it can be identified. What is all this vanity crap about? If ya got a message and ya wanna plaster it on your car then get a bumper sticker or paint it red on the side of your car.

:shrug:

[UpInArms]

4. well how about

Thou shall not kill?

or

Thou shall not lie?

when these folks start realizing that they support liars and murderers, will they get over their stupid selves?

[Gildor Inglorion]

7. Of Course Not!

They aren't interested in the CONTENT of the 10 Commandments, only the prospect of displaying them publicly and forcing everyone else to see them, whether they want to or not. If you really want to get a fundie steamed, ask "which version of the ten commandments do you prefer, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish?" or "if you are so observant, why do you keep the first day instead of the seventh-day Sabbath?" Watch out for implosions!

[Buns_of_Fire]

32. 11. Thou shalt not cut me off in traffic.

To get all ten on there, the printing would have to be rather small. What would that accomplish (besides causing more rear-end collisions?)

[ms_splash]

5. So god has a vested interest in lisence plates?

YOu'd think god would be telling her to spend six years feeding the hungry or working again domestic violence or something.

[northzax]

26. and since G-d is ommipowerful

couldn't g-d just make all license plates read "Tennessee for the Ten Commandments" if that's really what g-d wants?

[Norquist Nemesis]

6. Buy a bumper sticker lady

and put it below your fish. Glad I don't live in Tennessee to see my tax dollars promoting something unconstitutional. You know, if she gets her wish, I sure hope they give equal treatment and design a Praise be to Allah plate too.

I have nothing against her feeling all warm and fuzzy about her religion and expressing her beliefs. I just don't think tax dollars should be apportioned to pay for it. In fact, one could use the same argument they have used against unions because of dues money being spent where you one doesn't agree. (hope that made sense LOL)

[jean]

8. a farmer drove by yesterday - his license plate # was "Jesus"

[MikeGalos]

13. Ah

So that's where he went...

[WoodrowFan]

20. was he Mexican??

If Jesus was Jewish why did he have a Mexican name/?

[jean]

21. ha - no, he was a Minnesotan driving a small Toyota truck

[pinto]

28. they've outsourced Jesus?

[LiberalFighter]

10. If they allow it..

they should allow "My god killed your god!"

[Rich Hunt]

11. exactly

This woman knows she could just sell bumper stickers, but that is not her objective. These people are theocrats who want the government to endorse their brand of Christianity.

[Atlant]

12. The clash of Religious Fundamentalisms will be the death of this country.

[w4rma]

14. Fine with me.

I hope the plate has the 10 comandments listed for folks to read, instead of two really small illegable stone tablets.

[Mountainman]

15. Tennessee for Pagans, Tennessee for Wiccans

Tennessee for Jews
Tennessee for Islam
Tennessee for Hindus
Tennessee for (add your faith here)
Tennessee for Atheists

Put these into circulation also and get rid of gun laws so we can have our religious wars on the highways.

[jokerman93]

18. this a bad bad bad bad idea that will probably fly

Yeah lot's of states have a choice of plates to choose from, but they are all (as far as I know) historically or at least socially nuetral -- that is, they don't "seperate" people.

The only people who will use such plates will be the dangerous kind of statist neo-christian dominionist dweebs who don't know the difference between the flag and the christian bible.

Someone up-thread mentioned the legal dangers of abusing such plates, especially in an increasingly theocratic legal system like the one our self-annoited christian emperor is encouraging.

Want special treatment? Just show us your allegience to Mosaic law. Nudge. Nudge. Wink. Wink.

I'm so outraged by this statist religion stupidity, I'm about to start performing public ritualistic sacrifices of Furbie dolls just to protest! Who wants to join me wearing hooded robes and chant the RNC platform backwords???!!!

Paul is dead. Paul is dead. Paul is dead. Gaaaaaa!

[Ganja Ninja]

19. So what about a plate for other religions?

and how about one for atheist's?

[kayell]

24. Tennessee for the Wiccan Rede!

"An it harm none, do what you will."

I'm not religious, but this always struck me as one of the better religious guidelines.

[Terran]

23. "fath advocate"--is that an oxymoron?

Seems to me that "faith" is its own advocate--if you have it, you have it; if you don't, then a friggin' license plate won't do diddly to bring you faith. This woman has too much time on her hands, which, as they say, is the devil's work (God doesn't care one way or the other).

[Ilsa]

25. I'd like to have the state

put my business name and phone number on license plates, also, but fat chance!

[Robb]

27. Screw it, why the hell not.

We in Colorado already have this joyous number:



Yeah, yeah, it's supposedly about Columbine. Tell that to the Father Ryan Respect Life Club. :eyes:

[Bridget Burke]

29. Wouldn't they be too heavy? Stone tablets & all...

Might work for an Escalade, but not for my Tercel.

(Saving up for "Keep Texas Wild" plates, emblazoned with a Horned Toad.)

[kayell]

33. Hard to read too

Imagine all that carving AND the license number on a stone the size of a license plate.

[leesa]

30. Those of you from Tennessee, please bombard the state

with requests for your individual religions or non-religions to have their own license plate. That should be the end of this unconstitutional request.