9TH CIRCUIT COURT: PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL

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[Recovering_Democrat]

UNBELIEVABLE. BREAKING ON FOX: SF APPEALS COURT SAYS PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ENDORSES RELIGION, AND IS THEREBY UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

[cracker]

Technically, wouldn't the court only have to strike down the 1956 addition of "under God" as unconstitutional, and not the whole Pledge?

Sounds like overreaching to me.

[rwt60]

O.K., then let's not send them any more coins or currency with the words In God We Trust written thereon.

[newsperson999]

Our money is also constitutional "In God We Trust"

[Utopia]

The Federal Appeals court has ruled that the Pledge of Allegiance CANNOT be receited in schools because it endorses religion.

I guess we can't pay the judge either, because we'd hate for him to be a recipient of any form of money that endorses religion.

[Dimensio]

I can't get to the foxnews.com website right now...anyone have another link to this story elsewhere? I would like to read the specific wording of the ruling in question...

[FreedomFarmer]

The ninth circuit court is always way out of line.

I can mail the good folks out that way some rope.

They'll have to find their own trees.

Hate to see anyone out of line.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Un f' believable ...

11:29 PDT (AP) -- The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a 1954 act of Congress inserting the phrase "under God" after the words "one nation" in the pledge. The court said the phrase violates the so-called Establishment Clause in the Constitution that requires a separation of church and state. "A profession that we are a nation `under God' is identical, for Establishment Clause purposes, to a profession that we are a nation `under Jesus,' a nation `under Vishnu,' a nation `under Zeus,' or a nation `under no god,' because none of these professions can be neutral with respect to religion," Judge Alfred T. Goodwin wrote for the three-judge panel.

[Risky Schemer]

Actually they are simply following the school prayer ban logic and justification. If one is banned, it follows the other should be too.

Of course, eventually, a convoluted but successful argument will be presented that will absolve the Pledge of Allegiance, while not absolving school prayer, and this left coast decision will be overturned.

[cracker]

Does this make Federal Reserve Notes unconstitutional?

Yes. They are now illegal and worthless. Please send yours to me and I will dispose of them for you.

[SheLion]

What is this world coming to!

I grew up with that Pledge. Boy of boy. This is a sad day.

[phasma proeliator]

What a wonderful F'n world we live in.

will the public sit and allow this to happen? Likely YES - because we have turned in to a country where political correctness rules over dignity, freedom, and respect.

this is bullshit.

[Smedley]

Ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaggggghhhh

The 9th Circuit is a joke. The Pledge of Allegence is unconstitutional, but Naked Lesbians writhing in a glass shower in a bar is!

[TLBSHOW]

Can we go to court and say the democrats are a really a communist group that must be outlawed in the U.S.?

[Recovering_Democrat]

Case:
NEDOW v. U.S. CONGRESS
http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/newopinions.nsf/opinions+by+date?OpenView&Start=1&Count=100&Expand=1.1#1.1

[JulieRNR21]

[B Knotts]

Well, the 9th circuit is preserving their tradition of idiocy.

[ICE-FLYER]

It is not just time for open revolt against these terrorists to our nation but removal and jail for their reprehensible actions as officers of the court of our countrys 9th circuit.

Remove them, jail them.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

I think that Linda Vester might have a coronary over this announcement.

I find it sickening.

[WindMinstrel]

Holy batshit! They've gone nuts!

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