Posted on 09/24/2014 7:41:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A New Jersey high school student and her family have entered the ongoing legal battle over a lawsuit by an atheist group seeking to remove "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance.
Samantha Jones, a senior at Highland Regional High School in Blackwood, and her family filed an official response to a lawsuit by the American Humanist Association.
"If anyone wants to remain silent, that is their right. But it is not their right to silence me," said Jones in a statement.
"When I stand up, put my hand over my heart and say the Pledge of Allegiance, I am recognizing that my rights come from God, not from the government."
Jones is being represented by Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, an organization that offers legal defense of the "under God" phrase in past lawsuits.
In April, the legal arm of the American Humanist Association filed a lawsuit in New Jersey on behalf of a family that objected to their child attending a school where the pledge was said with "under God" included.
Filed in the Superior Court of New Jersey, the suit was directed against the Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District and its superintendent, David M. Healy.
"Public schools should not engage in an exercise that tells students that patriotism is tied to a belief in God," said David Niose, attorney for the AHA's Appignani Humanist Legal Center.
"Such a daily exercise portrays atheist and humanist children as second-class citizens, and certainly contributes to anti-atheist prejudices."
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So. Don’t say “Under God” if it offends you so much.
There is no requirement or obligation for you to utter any words or phrases you don’t want to.
What you suggest is a very simple matter and could have been done without having to go to court.
But these atheists have an agenda.
THEY WANT TO ELIMINATE ANY FORM OF RELIGION FROM PUBLIC LIFE.
Since they can’t do it by general consensus, they’ll use FORCE 9 which means the FORCE of GOVERNMENT ),
Same thing applies to those with the gay marriage agenda.
Yep.
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