Hasta La Ideas

The heck with it. We’re officially back on the license plate wagon again. After receiving some truly well-thought, highly-informative comments in yesterday’s post about New York’s new plate designs (we didn’t know some of those four letter word combinations even existed!), and with other plate news available, why not give the people what they want? While Montana and New York might be heading in the right direction by returning to simple, clean plates, apparently South Carolina had been going in the opposite direction, or at least trying to. A district judge in the former has just shot down the request to release a new Christian-specific plate, its layout featuring a stained glass window, a cross, and the words “I Believe” underneath the license numbers. A very similar plate, and an even more overt one, had recently been proposed and rejected in Florida. The judges in both instances claimed that the designs were too close for comfort when it came to separation of church and state issues. Supporters have cried foul, claiming this to be a freedom of speech issue, which we learned in previous posts, is a serious issue when it comes to license plate design (see? we told you how connected we are now to this world o’ plates). Of course, we’ll just assume that everyone has responded very calmly to the judge’s decision and no one is going to spend lots of money fighting the rejection.

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