[Sabertooth]

Then something happened unique in the history of the nation: Americans grew frightened. Perhaps it was the knowledge that a bomb which they had invented could be used against their own children. Perhaps it was the political demagogery of a man named Joe McCarthy. Whatever the reason, by the early 1950's the people and their leaders had forgotten why they had fought two World Wars, why their forebearers had fled England, and why the Bill Of Rights had been written.

The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment was not written to preclude the mention of God in the Pledge of Allegiance.

You're aware, I'm sure, that the Framers held that rights were endowed by our Creator?

How can the mention of God, our Creator, violate a right endowed by God, our Creator?

[medved]

How can the mention of God, our Creator, violate a right endowed by God, our Creator?

The people who promulgate this kind of BS believe that we are meat byproducts of stochastic processes (the ideological doctrine of evolutionism). You have to assume that colors their "thinking" somewhat...