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September 15, 2005

Pledge Of Allegiance - One Nation Under God Who?

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Riehl World View writes, "Hopefully the Confederate Yankee is right about how this issue could wind up."

And adds, "as a political aside, would you consider changing the term of the Presidency to five years?"

For the overwhelming majority of Americans who know and are aware of God's presence, and are quite comfortable with acknowledging the fact that we strive to exist under His grace, why is it that the Michael Newdows of the world are given not only the audience but the sanction to inflict the effects of their blindness upon the rest of us? Does judicial activism by an agenda-driven judiciary ring a bell?

When judges use "legerdemain," "slight-of-hand" and "obfuscation" to describe a ruling by their fellow judges, it's a clue that the "dissenting opinion" isn't boring.

"Under God" is a statement of historical fact about the United States, not a religious exercise. It's a pledge to a nation, not a prayer to God. Judge O'Scannlain cites numerous Supreme Court school cases in which former Chief Justice Burger, Justices Douglas, Brennan, Blackmun, O'Connor and Kennedy made "explicit references to the constitutionality of the Pledge." Then there's a 1992 decision by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld an Illinois statute requiring school teachers to lead in the Pledge each school day.
The First Amendment protects both freedom of speech and the freedom not to speak. Newdow likes to remind us that the Bill of Rights is a shield to protect the individual from the tyranny of the majority. That's true. But Newdow isn't satisfied that neither his daughter nor any other child has to say the Pledge-he doesn't want others to say it even if they want to. Tyranny by the individual is still tyranny.

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Posted by Richard at September 15, 2005 1:55 PM

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