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Posted on 09/17/2005 7:02:23 AM PDT by NYer
New Haven, Sep. 16, 2005 (CNA) - The national office of the Knights of Columbus has announced that the group plans to immediately appeal a decision, given earlier this week by a California judge, that the words “under God” render the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional.
The Knights were among the defendants in the case of Newdow vs. Congress of the United States, et al--the decision of which has angered religious groups nationwide.
District Judge Lawrence Karlton said in his Wednesday decision that the phrase violates a student’s right to be ``free from a coercive requirement to affirm God.''
The ruling effects three school districts in Sacramento county, California.
Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson said that "if freedom of religion in America means anything at all, it means that it's just as constitutional to recite the Pledge of Allegiance – complete with the words 'under God' – as it is to read aloud the Declaration of Independence.”
He said that, “They both express the same truth: that our fundamental rights come from God, our creator, and not from government. To suggest that the language of the First Amendment prohibits the simple statement of that truth is to stand the Constitution on its head."
The Knights of Columbus say that they were instrumental in persuading congress to insert the words, “under God” into the pledge in 1954. Their request to be defendants in the Newdow case this year was granted by the court.
The 1.7 million member Knights of Columbus are being represented in the case by The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.
This judge has to go.
"The Knights of Columbus say that they were instrumental in persuading congress to insert the words, “under God” into the pledge in 1954. Their request to be defendants in the Newdow case this year was granted by the court."
Excellent news. Glad to hear it. Can non-Catholics be on your ping list? Do you accept boring, lutefisk eating, potluck supper holding Lutherans? If so, please add me. Thanks! :)
Someone should tell the non believers that if they do not want to recite the pledge of allegiance, they do not have to. But for those of us who want to, do it! If the non believers do not believe in God, why are they so afraid of him?
>>Do you accept boring, lutefisk eating, potluck supper holding Lutherans? If so, please add me. Thanks! :)<<
LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!
I too am a non catholic, but have learned alot from these pings
Our Pledge of Allegiance has never been a prayer, does not promote prayer, and does not promote religion. If the pledge were read as "one nation under ______ (insert the name of the god of your religion)" that would promote religion and I'd have a very big problem with that.
I pity Newdow and those who would remove "under God" from our pledge.
And every year the Knights of Columbus march by. They have heavy wool outifts on. They are wearing capes, they have swords.
And every year, it's 90+ degrees. It's hot, very very hot.
And as they march by, they don't sweat. Not a drop.
Any friend of Zorro's is a friend of mine.
Next up .... the currency. Removing the words "In God We Trust" from US currency, has been in the works for quite some time. Now, more than ever, we need John Roberts on SCOTUS.
Good for the Knights of Columbus! They are a GREAT organization. God Bless everyone who is standing up for what is right.
The Knights of Columbus, which is among the defendants in Newdow v. Congress of the United States, et al., will immediately appeal Wednesday's decision by U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Karlton, holding that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in school is unconstitutional.
This world desperately needs more knights.
Vivat!
Those Knights are called Fourth Degree....my father was one. They were tuxedo's under their cape also.
Is there a female counterpart to the great Knights of Columbus?
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[T]he laws of nature . . . of course presupposes the existence of a God, the moral ruler of the universe, and a rule of right and wrong, of just and unjust, binding upon man, preceding all institutions of human society and government.
John Quincy Adams
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Alexander Hamilton, Signer of the Constitution
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The Christian religion does NOT force anyone to BE Christian....it PROTECTS the People from an overreaching government by being the primary source of law!
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