PhotoDrivers in New Jersey will be able to request vanity license plates that reference their belief in atheism after the state’s Motor Vehicle Commission settled a lawsuit this month filed by a woman whose request for a license plate that said “8THEIST” was rejected almost three years ago. “She rightly realized that it was a straight-up case of religious discrimination against atheists and nonbelievers,” Mr. Katskee said. The Motor Vehicle Commission also agreed to honor license plate applications that contained language related to atheism, feminism or L.G.B.T. Ms. Morgan’s application was the second instance in less than two years that the commission had rejected an atheist license plate, Mr. Katskee said. The first was when David Silverman, the president of an organization called American Atheists, applied for a license plate that said “ATHE1ST” in 2013.

Source: New York Times August 16, 2016 11:15 UTC