Officials claim car tags property of state so can't endorse religion © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com A Vermont man is fighting the state government over its refusal to allow him to have a license plate with a reference to a Bible verse. After receiving a rejection from the state to his request for custom plates bearing "JOHN316," Rutlant, Vt., resident Shawn Byrne appealed to an administrative law judge. When the appeal was rejected Byrne, with the help of religious-liberties law firm Alliance Defense Fund, sued in federal court earlier this year. According to the Rutland Herald, Byrne's attorney, Jeremy Tedesco, last week...