Senate condemns Pledge ruling by 99-0 margin

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[Brytani]

Indeed, Jesse Helms did not cast a vote on this measure. We can assume it had to do with his recent surgery.







Senate Roll Call Votes Taken Today


TODAY'S FLOOR VOTES

The following roll call votes took place on the Senate floor today.

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(Rollcall Vote No. 163 Leg. )

June 26, 2002 5:14PM

VOTE TITLE: S. Res. 292

BILL NO.: S.Res. 292

REQUIRED FOR MAJORITY: 1/2
RESULT: Resolution Agreed to


YEAS --- 99
Akaka Dorgan Lugar
Allard Durbin McCain
Allen Edwards McConnell
Baucus Ensign Mikulski
Bayh Enzi Miller
Bennett Feingold Murkowski
Biden Feinstein Murray
Bingaman Fitzgerald Nelson (FL)
Bond Frist Nelson (NE)
Boxer Graham Nickles
Breaux Gramm Reed
Brownback Grassley Reid
Bunning Gregg Roberts
Burns Hagel Rockefeller
Byrd Harkin Santorum
Campbell Hatch Sarbanes
Cantwell Hollings Schumer
Carnahan Hutchinson Sessions
Carper Hutchison Shelby
Chafee Inhofe Smith (NH)
Cleland Inouye Smith (OR)
Clinton Jeffords Snowe
Cochran Johnson Specter
Collins Kennedy Stabenow
Conrad Kerry Stevens
Corzine Kohl Thomas
Craig Kyl Thompson
Crapo Landrieu Thurmond
Daschle Leahy Torricelli
Dayton Levin Voinovich
DeWine Lieberman Warner
Dodd Lincoln Wellstone
Domenici Lott Wyden

NOT VOTING --- 1
Helms





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[The Mayor]

On seperation of Church and State

It is impossible to build sound Constitutional doctrine
on a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history...
The establishment clause had been expressely freighted with
Jeffersons misleading metaphor for nearly forty years...
There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition
that the framers intended to build a wall of seperation
[between church and state]...
The recent court decisions are in no way based on either
the language or the intent of the framers.

William H. Rehnquist
1985 Assoc. Justice U.S. Supreme Court
Wallace vs Jafree

[Barnacle]

Welcome to Free Republic Dude!

[BenLurkin]

Dishonest socialist democrat party slimeballs. Most of them would gladly see God removed from every aspect of our society.

[ladyinred]

Oh my look at the rats scramble to distance themselves from the evil court that seems to have the very same political views they do!
See, they know the little people are mad as heck about this and so they denounce it in public, and probably applaud it behind closed doors.

[ladyinred]

This is a federal court that is based in California. Technically it is not a California court, it represents several western states including Washington, Oregon, Nevada, etc.

[nobdysfool]

BREAKING NEWS: The 9th Circus Court of Appeals declares Senate unconstitutional.

THIS JUST IN! God declares 9th Circuit Court of Appeals unconstitutional....

[ThePythonicCow]

Bingo!

Secularism - the new state religion, in direct contradiction to the Constitutions ban on a state religion.

[ThePythonicCow]

I suppose the only ones who should have a problem with the phrase "under God" are the godless atheists

I am such, and I've no problem with it. Indeed, I heartily endorse that phrase in our Pledge.

Though I am intellectually certain there is no God as some more sentient being, I am patriotically and morally convinced that there is something known to my fellow citizens and neighbors as God who/what is at the root of being, life, our nation and our moral fibre. When referring, with humble respect, to that Root of All, I will usually and gladly use the word "God", for that is how such is spoken of in my language.

One of the great wonders of this nation is that it doesn't matter that my "God" wears a different colour robe than yours.

It does matter very much that we understand and teach our children that our Freedom and Dignity comes from God, not from Washington, D.C.

[mrobison]

When Sean Hannity interviewed the athiest guy that brought this lawsuit today, the one question I wanted him to ask was "What if you're wrong and there is a God and he wants us to say the Pledge of Allegiance?"

[wny]

beautiful!

[Maelstrom]

We are now entering a time of incredible ironies. Let us cite but one of these ironies which is yet in its subtle stages: We will see a maximum, if indirect, effort made to establish irreligion as the state religion. It is actually a new form of paganism-which uses the carefully preserved and cultivated freedoms of western civilization to shrink freedom, even as it rejects the value essence of our rich Judeo-Christian heritage.
--Elder Neal A. Maxwell An Address delivered at Brigham Young University, 10 October 1978 Ensign (Feb. 1979), pp. 69-73

[Maelstrom]

Force them to reveal their true colors. Call for a repeal of those responsible for this ruling.

[Maelstrom]

Not good enough. Call your Congresscritters and push for impeachment.

[Maelstrom]

Them mess up their clearly disingenuous tactic. Force them to vote on impeachment.

[piasa]

"We take the stars from Heaven, the red from out mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty." -George Washington

(I guess that court will have to take the stars away from the flag, too.)

[ArrogantBustard]

Thanks; I figured the reason was health (or lack thereof), not lack of patriotism.

[Lev]

They want the votes, don't they?

[AmericanInTokyo]

As usual, you hit a home run.