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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Senate OKs national motto in courts, if funded By BOB LEWIS, Associated Press February 18, 2002 RICHMOND -- The Senate approved legislation Monday that would require posting of the national motto, ``In God We Trust,'' in state courtrooms, but put its effectiveness in doubt by adding an amendment requiring the state to pay for it. On a 30-10 vote, the Senate approved the bill the House had OK'd overwhelmingly in January, but a related bill to require posting the motto in public schools was passed by for the day when a senator sought to add the same funding amendment. Requiring the legislature to appropriate money to post the motto in schools or in courts could keep the measure from taking effect for years as legislative budget writers summarily reject most new spending requests as they struggle with a $3.8 billion shortfall. ``So unless the General Assembly appropriates funds, which I don't believe is done in the Senate budget, the law won't become effective,'' said Sen. Kenneth W. Stolle, R-Virginia Beach, who heads the committee that added the funding requirement. Sen. Linda T. ``Toddy'' Puller liked the amendment so well that when the bill to require posting the motto in schools came up moments later, she offered a floor amendment requiring the state to pay for that as well. ``If we're going to indeed put this law into effect, then it is our responsibility to pay for these plaques, or whatever they are, that are mounted in our schools,'' said Puller, D-Fairfax County. Sen. Nick Rerras asked that the amendment be rejected. He said schools should be allowed instead to accept private contributions to pay for displaying the motto, ``to provide strength and inspiration, to help with perseverance in times of need especially in days when we have terrorists flying jumbo jets into our towering skyscrapers.'' ``Is the junior senator from Norfolk telling us that had this been posted for the last 20 or 30 years nobody would have flown a plane into the World Trade Center?'' Sen. Richard L. Saslaw, D-Fairfax County, asked in response. In other business, the Senate also voted 34-5 with one abstention for legislation that would remove a limit on the amount of real estate that churches may own. If it becomes law, the measure could resolve a conflict the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg encountered in its efforts to expand. Falwell sued in U.S. District Court contending the state's acreage limit for churches was unconstitutional. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
