Dianne Feinstein: “I find this decision, at best, very embarrassing--embarrassing because perhaps the court doesn't know, but our coins…”

“I find this decision, at best, very embarrassing--embarrassing because perhaps the court doesn't know, but our coins have contained ``in God we trust'' for a century and a half. This was put into action by the Congress in 1954, almost 50 years ago. So we have had reference to God on our coins for a century and a half and reference to God in the Pledge of Allegiance for over a half century. In 30 years of public life, I have never had an objection from anyone about either. When I heard about this decision, knowing how Senator Burns has felt about the Ninth Circuit, I quickly looked to see who the judges were. I found that one is a Nixon judge, one is a Carter judge, and the dissenting judge was a George Bush, Sr., judge. I can only say that I would be hopeful that the full Ninth Circuit would take up this matter and straighten it out, and, if they do not, that it goes rapidly on appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, and that the Supreme Court of the United States straightens it out. From the beginning of our country, God has always played a role.”