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Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Driver allowed to keep Christian vanity plate

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF AND NEWS SERVICES

OLYMPIA -- Vanity may be a sin, but a Christian message on vanity license plates is OK with the state of Washington.

The Department of Licensing yesterday dismissed a complaint against a vanity plate imprinted with "JOHN316."

"The plate is not offensive under our rules and was never in danger of being canceled," said Licensing Department Director Liz Luce.

The plate refers to the verse in the New Testament that says, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

Someone filed a complaint about the plate in April, and the department's vanity plate review committee called an early meeting to deal with it because of the public interest. The department did not identify the owner of the plate or the person who complained.

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