'in God We Trust' Motto Sparks Debate in Minnesota

well our nation's motto In God We Trust it not igniting a debate on the Minnesota State Senate floor over a bill that simply allows schools to get this voluntarily display posters with the saying on it but some lawmakers Democrats argued the motto doesn't belong in schools and that it's offensive listen I'm wondering if senator Hall would feel the same if if students walked in and and instead of the word God the word Allah which is the word for God in the in the Muslim religion welcomed students to their schools God who spoke against money and the money I carry in my wallet yes to say In God We Trust I think that's offensive he thinks it's offensive those are two Senate Democrats from Minnesota our next guest authored the bill which did end up passing the state Senate Minnesota State Senator Dan Hall joins us now senator thanks for being here so first of all you bet thanks babe absolutely first of all tell us what your bill did what your Amendment does and second of all did you anticipate this kind of reaction from Democrats well the amendment is pretty simple it allows the school to put up the national motto in the school on a wall wherever they want except in a conspicuous place and there's no cost to it the cost would come from the community if they wanted it so it's voluntary and it's not on the taxpayer dime the schools can choose and yet these Democrats get up so you introduced this you thought it would be largely non-controversial because it is our national motto and what did you what were you thinking when you were getting this response hey I don't want it and my money or in my schools well you know I just figured that the opposition would be really short there wouldn't be a whole lot of opposition when I started hearing more and more of this I thought really they they don't want it that much in their schools I can't imagine that that's not how I grew up and my whole premise was how about bringing respect back in the schools we've lost a lot of respect for those things in life that we should be respecting why is God the mention of God in our schools controversial for the left today you know there seems to be an anti faith movement in our country to suppress anything that is religious in any way and wipe it out of government I only assume that if you take those things out of government if you take the things that are respectful out you're gonna put in something different and I hate to say what that could be but I'm here to tell you we need to bring respect back to our country and religious freedom we are one of the great countries of religious freedom that's why people come here and so why couldn't we put our national motto In God We Trust back in the school it's a great point what when we stripped God out of the schools we replaced it with something else like ideological indoctrination and we're seeing the fruits of that right now senator Dan Hall from Minnesota keep up the fight we'll be following the bill to see if the governor actually signs it appreciate your time Thanks beep you got to keep up the fight