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Atheist couple wants 'God' out of Texas pledge
Dallas Morning News ^
| 8/29/2007
| Katherine Leal Unmuth
Posted on 08/29/2007 5:11:46 AM PDT by Dudoight
A day after thousands of schoolchildren began reciting the revised Texas pledge honoring "one state under God," an atheist couple asked a federal judge in Dallas that the language be immediately removed.
TEXAS PLEDGE The Texas pledge revised by legislators this year now reads: "Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible." case.
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Here we go again!
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posted on
08/29/2007 5:11:48 AM PDT
by
Dudoight
To: Dudoight
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posted on
08/29/2007 5:14:50 AM PDT
by
wolfcreek
(tagline on holiday)
To: Dudoight
Yup, always some joker lurking around ready to ask a senile federal judge to impose HIS theological standards on everybody else.
If he wants to worship his little wooden gods in the privacy of his own hime, I suppose that's OK, but he shouldn't expect the courts to serve as his ecclesiastical authority.
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posted on
08/29/2007 5:15:24 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: Dudoight
If an athiest want to fulfill his dream of living somewhere that doesn’t acknowledge God, he shouldn’t pick a country that was founded on the principle that our rights are given to us by the Creator. That’s like going to a steak house for a vegetarian meal.
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posted on
08/29/2007 5:17:40 AM PDT
by
Dilbert56
(Harry Reid, D-Nev.: "We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.")
To: Dudoight
Why do people thing the absence of religion is a neutral position? The absence of religion gave us 100 million dead under Lenin, Lazar Kaganovich, Marx, Engels, Stalin, Mao, and the rest of their ilk.
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posted on
08/29/2007 5:25:40 AM PDT
by
SQUID
To: Dudoight
If he thinks his kids are hurt by having to leave the room while the others say the pledge, wait until he faces Almighty God and trys to explain his actions. He will then get the true definition of “hurt.”
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posted on
08/29/2007 5:29:46 AM PDT
by
Bulldawg Fan
(Victory is the last thing Murtha and his fellow Defeatists want.)
To: Dudoight
My kids said the new pledge on the first day of school Monday. it was wonderful!
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posted on
08/29/2007 5:29:56 AM PDT
by
Halls
(Vote for a Constitutionalist!!!!!!)
To: Dudoight
Poor atheists, fewer commie countries around that support their brand of government.
To: Always Right
Atheism - The State Religion of the most murderous regimes of the 20th century. 100+ million victims. Makes Islamic fundamentalist regimes seem like incompetent pikers in comparison.
To: Bulldawg Fan
There are no atheists in Hell..........
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posted on
08/29/2007 5:40:33 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
To: Red Badger
There are no atheists in Hell.......... True. Then they are full of incredible regret - forever.
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posted on
08/29/2007 5:41:28 AM PDT
by
SkyPilot
To: Dudoight
An appropriate Op-ed in tomorrow’s paper...
Texas wants “Atheist” couple out of Texas
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posted on
08/29/2007 5:41:52 AM PDT
by
wilco200
To: Dudoight
That might work in California or Massachusetts. Good luck with that in Texas, ya non believing retards.
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posted on
08/29/2007 5:42:21 AM PDT
by
OCCASparky
(Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
To: Dudoight
“an atheist couple asked a federal judge in Dallas that the language be immediately removed.”
A solution in search of a problem. If you don’t believe, just leave the words out when you say the pledge.
To: Dudoight
So long as they don’t make it mandatory by law......I don’t care.
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posted on
08/29/2007 5:52:15 AM PDT
by
ElectricStrawberry
(1/27 Wolfhounds...cut in half during the Clinton years.)
To: Dudoight
I have a problem with pledging allegiance to a state. The US is a federation, not a confederation.
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posted on
08/29/2007 5:55:43 AM PDT
by
GraniteStateConservative
(...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
To: Poison Pill
They’d really scream if they knew we added “Born and Unborn” after “For All” when we recite the Pledge at our K of C meetings.
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posted on
08/29/2007 5:55:53 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: Dudoight
Maybe they should move to a state where the pledge doesn’t offend them? California maybe?
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posted on
08/29/2007 5:56:21 AM PDT
by
Non-Sequitur
(Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
To: Dudoight
Court denies injunction on state pledge - Aug. 28, 2007 - "With today's ruling, a federal judge denied the plaintiffs' attempt to prevent Texas schoolchildren from pledging their allegiance to 'one state under God,'" Attorney General Greg Abbott said in a news release. "The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held patriotic acknowledgments of the Almighty such as these are completely consistent with the U.S. Constitution."
He argued that the Croft children, who attend Carrollton-Farmers Branch schools, are harmed by recitation of the Texas pledge,....How in the world are they harmed ? Are they going to freak out just by hearing the word GOD?
The Croft's must be doing a terrible job instilling the athesist belief in their children. If they really believed that strongly, they should just tell their children to ignore what they hear and move on...they can still choose to not beleive in GOD regardless of what their peers do.
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posted on
08/29/2007 6:03:14 AM PDT
by
Mopp4
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