POLITICIANS STAND UP FOR GOD: Defense papers submitted against Agnostic group.

      *A group of U.S. legislators are defending their right to use religious slogans on a newly constructed public building.

     The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation has challenged the national motto “In God We Trust,” and the Pledge of Allegiance, which includes the word “God” as unconstitutional.

     And the atheist group wants the words erased from the face of the newly built Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C.

      According to World Net Daily, The American Center for Law and Justice, three U.S. senators and 41 representatives filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a case brought in July against the building’s architect by the atheist and agnostic organization in U.S. District Court.

      The FFRF claimed that the use of tax dollars to add the engravings lacks a secular purpose and has the primary effect of endorsing a religious viewpoint. The ACLJ brief argues that the national motto and Pledge of Allegiance accurately reflect our nation's historical foundation on a belief in God and contends that the constitutionality of both "God" references is well established in case law.