An Indiana Senate committee has approved a bill that would create an "In God We Trust" license plate.
The plates would be voluntary. The measure was sent to the full Senate for a vote with only one dissent, WISH-TV reported.
Republican Rep. Woody Burton sees the law as an antidote to a recent court ruling that found that prayers at the beginning of state legislative sessions violated the First Amendment, because many of them are specifically Christian.
But Lindsey Mintz of the Jewish Community Relations Council called the license plate bill "concerning and a waste of time."
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