For me, it makes a big difference whether Moore is permitting a display paid for by Private Contributions in accordance with Community Standards (towards which I would have very little objection), or raiding the Public Treasury -- into which Atheists pay taxes, too.
It's a very pedantic, niggling little concern on my part, except that's it's also an Eighth Commandment concern.
Who said, "I have asked the Merciful Father -- the Father of us all -- to let this cup pass from me, but from such dreaded responsibility one does not shrink in fear, in self-interest, or in false humility. So, “If this cup may not pass from me, except I drink it, Thy will be done.”?
Adlai E. Stevenson. 26 July 1952. Speech Accepting the Democratic Presidential Nomination
Who sang "Onward Christian Soliders " in front of the press?
FDR. Divine Services aboard HMS Prince of Wales. 10 August 1941
Who said, "We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God."
Harry Truman. Inaugural address.
Who quoted Micah 6:8-- "He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God."--in a speech?
Jimmy Carter. Inaugural address.
Who wrote: "I really enjoyed learning the Bible verses and the hymns, which always had to be memorized for Sunday morning, and I have never to this day quite got over the real pleasure of singing hymns on Sunday evening, after supper, as a family."
Eleanor Roosevelt. 1932. "What Religion Means to Me"
Who attended a communium service at the Treasury Department and Sunday services in the House of Representatives?
Thomas Jefferson
Who said, "The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God"?
John F Kennedy. Inagural address.
Who said, "There was once a country in exactly the same shape as America is today. God's prophet was there and applied the laws as God had prescribed them. If you would just recognize that God is still alive, that His law still lives, America would not grope today . . . .(various Biblical verses quoted)....Hear me, people of America, God's laws live today. Keep them and none suffer, disregard them and we go the way of the missing. His word said that . . . Maybe you do not believe the Bible; maybe you do not accept God as your Supreme Lawgiver. God help you if you do not. . ."?
Huey Long . Our Growing Calamity. The Congressional Record. January 23, 1935
Who said, "The basic source of our strength is spiritual. For we are a people with a faith. We believe in the dignity of man. We believe that he was created in the image of the Father of us all."
Harry Truman. State of the Union 1948
Who said, "We are inspired by a faith that goes back through all the years to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis: 'God created man in His own image' . . . There never has been—there never can be—successful compromise between good and evil."
FDR. State of the Union, 1942