Group Sues to Keep Cross Off Car Plates

By SEAN D. HAMILL
June 20, 2008

An organization that advocates for the separation of church and state filed a federal lawsuit Thursday asking that South Carolina not be allowed to produce license plates that feature a Christian cross with the phrase “I Believe.”

The license plate was approved unanimously by the state’s Legislature earlier this year, and Gov. Mark Sanford, a Republican, allowed the bill to become law, but without his signature. the rest