In God We Trust

I'll ignore (no, I won't!) the fact that the Federal use of the motto "In God We Trust" is arguably unconstitutional - they should have stuck with "E Pluribus Unum". The motto is an implicit breach of the first amendment. It may not establish any Roman Catholic, Celtic Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian, Greek Orthodox, Coptic, or any other variety of the many sects of the Christian religion: nor does it establish establish any Jewish or Islamic sect. But it does imply recognition of an Abrahamic God, cutting off all religions which do not adhere to that single-god model of a universal creator, or none at all. In 1789 the framers of the Constitution may all have been of that mindset, but I'm fairly certain they weren't. Meanwhile, back at the script, I have never trusted the Gianelli character and was pleased to see him kicked into touch. As another reviewer has remarked, the high point of the episode is the two (essentially humanist) pragmatists, Bartlet and Winnick, settling their differences over a selection of ice creams.