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Atheist to sue over 'In God We Trust' on money
www.volunteertv.com ^ | 11/13/05

Posted on 11/13/2005 6:11:40 PM PST by Ellesu

SACRAMENTO, Calif. The atheist who's spent years trying to ban recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools says he'll file a new lawsuit this week.

Michael Newdow says he'll ask a federal court to order removal of the national motto "In God We Trust" from U-S coins and currency. He says it violates the religious rights of atheists who belong to his "First Amendment Church of True Science."

The church's "three suggestions" are "question, be honest and do what's right." Newdow says it wouldn't be right to take up a collection when the money says "In God We Trust."

Last year, the Supreme Court dismissed Newdow's lawsuit over the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance because he doesn't have custody of his daughter, in whose name the lawsuit was filed.

Newdow has resurrected that case by filing an identical lawsuit on behalf of two families.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: atheists; culturewars; ingodwetrust; lawsuit; michaelnewdow; motto; newdow; pleasedo; purge; scum
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To: Ellesu
Doofus. Unfortunately, a doofus with a loud microphone, a willing press and the ninth circuit.

Sigh.
161 posted on 11/14/2005 7:21:53 PM PST by pollyannaish
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To: hookman
I WORSHIP LIBERALS AND ATHEISTS therefore according to Jeff, atheists and liberals have no place in my child's classroom, on my money, in public view, and ultimately cannot hold any office of the United States government or any state of local offices.

By this logic math should be removed from public education, because of the worship of the Pythagorians. Do you have an argument that doesn't rely on faulty analogies?

I don't even like Newdow, but some of the arguments against his position are pathetic.
162 posted on 11/14/2005 7:22:57 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: MissouriConservative

France rejected God during the French Revolution. Look where they are now. It's our (America's) future at the rate we're going.


163 posted on 11/14/2005 9:01:30 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: jonrick46; All

The full four verses, for your studying pleasure:

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER
Francis Scott Key, 1814

O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?


On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!


And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.


O thus be it ever when free-men shall stand
Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust!”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!


164 posted on 11/14/2005 9:53:34 PM PST by AZ_Cowboy ("Be ever vigilant, for you know not when the master is coming")
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To: AZ_Cowboy

The left wing is that same mindset that would muzzel information as men did in the Dark Ages when people were put to death for scientific knowledge that contradicted Mother Church. For insight into this era, check out Pope Gregory.


165 posted on 11/14/2005 10:04:55 PM PST by jonrick46
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To: Ellesu
Deep thought...

Is there a special Hell for atheists?

166 posted on 11/14/2005 10:05:30 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: Dimensio

Ah. Is THAT why we had to include the words, "Under God", to the Pledge of Allegiance, because it was written by a socialist?


167 posted on 11/15/2005 7:47:00 PM PST by Quick1
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To: Ellesu

I've come to the conclusion that Bill Cosby had it right as far as dealing with people like Newdow, who are overly litigious...

I seem to recall that Bill Cosby was talking about someone who was going to sue him, and Bill said that he'd beat him up if the guy sued him. The guy said that he'd sue him for beating him up, and Bill said that if he did, he'd just beat him up again!

I think that what Newdow needs is a serious, class A ass kicking!

Mark


168 posted on 11/15/2005 7:53:25 PM PST by MarkL (I didn't get to where I am today by worrying about what I'd feel like tomorrow!)
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To: MarkL
I seem to recall that Bill Cosby was talking about someone who was going to sue him, and Bill said that he'd beat him up if the guy sued him. The guy said that he'd sue him for beating him up, and Bill said that if he did, he'd just beat him up again!

Sounds apocryphal. Regardless, continued acts of assault and battery might be difficult after the first attempt lands the attacker in prison.
169 posted on 11/15/2005 8:49:11 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: Ellesu

There are no Athiest in a foxhole


170 posted on 11/18/2005 5:00:46 PM PST by RedhairRedhair
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