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I think in some states, some license plates are still made by prisoners.
And, for the record, I think while we have "In God We Trust" on our money, we can't bar states from putting it on license plates. Whether I think we should continue to have "In God We Trust" on our money is another question....
But I absolutely resist the idea of putting a cross on license plates. That is a clear violation of the separation between church and state. And this is not about that I'm Jewish, so the state should provide me one with a Star of David or a Menorah. I don't want my religious symbols on anything issued by the government, either. The only way to guarantee freedom to practice religion for everyone is for the government to completely disassociate itself from any single religion. Which, by the way, I am not at all satisfied it is doing, and I would like it to be done much better.... But that's another question....
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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