American license-plate worship has recently broken out like the hives, nowhere as intensely as in South Carolina. There, only a temporary federal injunction prevents state sale of cross & stained-glass illustrated "I believe" license plates.
Robert Marsden (Monty) Knight, pastor of First Christian Church in Charleston, S.C. and is one of four clergy plaintiffs in the lawsuit challenging his state’s proposed “I Believe” license plates. He told DisciplesWorld:
It’s just politicians trotting out a shallow veneer of Christian piety to court the Christians here in South Carolina. [The governor didn’t endorse it] He said, in essence, if your faith is no deeper than a license plate, it’s pretty shallow. There are other special plates…but this one came straight from the legislature- it was a violation of the First Amendment from the get-go.
Faith as deep as a license plate, as wide as chrome door trim? Faith politically demeaned by legislators.
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