In a Gainesville, Georgia megachurch on Sunday, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson vowed that he would “go to war with the PC police” and return God to the forefront of American life, as “the founding documents” intended — and that anyone who thought he should do differently is suffering from “schizophrenia,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Daniel Mallow reported.
Carson told the assembled faithful that “the pledge of allegiance to our flag says we are ‘one nation, under God’; many courtrooms in the land on the wall it says ‘In God We Trust’; every coin in our pocket, every bill in our wallet says ‘In God We Trust.’” He neglected, conveniently, to note that the motto “In God We Trust” was adopted in 1956 as part of an anti-communist campaign to differentiate the United States from the ideologically secular Soviet Union.