Posted on 09/14/2005 11:51:27 AM PDT by Rightwingmom
SAN FRANCISCO — Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance (search) in public schools was ruled unconstitutional Wednesday by a federal judge who granted legal standing to two families represented by an atheist who lost his previous battle before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Here in Idaho, which is in the 9th circuit, at football games and in schools, after the last 9th district ruling, people were doing so anyway, emphasizing very loudly the "under God" part, daring the courts to do anything about it.
This isn't to the circuit courts level yet...but it will get there and then have to go to the Supreme Court to get smacked down again.
That's awful!!!
We went through this last year and the supreme court overturned it. Not sure of the details on this yet but the left sure never stops.
I thought that once you lost at the Supreme Court you were done. What happened?
And now, we ALL start paying attention to the confirmation hearings!
It's already in Breaking News...
Here we go again.
It has always been respected for people like Jehovah's Witnesses that refused to PLEDGE Allegiance, we allowed silence during this important event. So WHY the big deal, if the parents don't want their kids to pledge allegiance...just cough...when others say UNDER GOD. Why make a big fuss?
I think Congress should impeach at least one judge every year. Let's get some turnover.
Waiting for one to rule that The Constitution is unconstitutional.
Yeah Kalifornia...ye reaps what ye sows!
Sorry, I see other's already posted the news.
The judge was a Carter appointee - what a shock, huh? He's been out of office for 25 years, and the damage that Jimmy C. did to the US just keeps going on and on....
Perhaps the parents of the rest of the children who are now having their freedom of expression oppressed should start filing suit.
Send him to China to complete his term.
The decision was not overturned by SCOTUS it was thrown back into the system. They basically said that the atheist father was not able to bring the case on behalf of his daughter and to go get more plaintiffs.
Basically, SCOTUS side-stepped the issue.
The fact-of-the-matter remains that when a public school REQUIRES the recital of the Pledge of Allegience it IS unconstitional due to the fact that the school is a part of the government and paid for by the people.
Because its considered INTOLERANT for the rest of us to not do what the minority insist on.
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