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.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

11:32 PDT (AP) -- The court, in the nation's first ruling of its kind, said that when President Eisenhower signed the 1954 legislation, he wrote that "millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty."

The court noted that the U.S. Supreme Court has said students cannot hold religious invocations at graduations and cannot be compelled to recite the pledge. But the appeals panel said that classroom pledges, regardless of whether a student participates, are unconstitutional and an "unacceptable choice between participating and protesting."

"Although students cannot be forced to participate in recitation of the pledge, the school district is nonetheless conveying a message of state endorsement of a religious belief when it requires public school teachers to recite, and lead the recitation of, the current form of the pledge," the court said.

[Hacksaw]

whatever happened to freedom of worship? I suppose you have such freedoms as long as you are not Christian.

Freedom of religion in the US today means that you are free to practice religion as long as noone else notices.

[Charles_Bingley]

only in that federal court district.

[CecilRhodesGhost]

The "one nation UNDER GOD" portion was added later to the pledge. I can't see the need for outrage here. This is simply courts affirming the separation of church and state.

[GeneD]

The opinion (a .pdf file; Adobe Acrobat required)

[SheLion]

....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.

Someone said that "THEY" have put a Tu Tu on Uncle Sam.

:(

[Howlin]

The 9th has the WORST record of being overturned.

[Dog]

This is a stunning ruling.....

[cracker]

Freedom of religion in the US today means that you are free to practice religion as long as noone else notices.

Don't ask, don't tell. It's not really discrimination...

[mlo]

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.

So, the pledge was not declared unconstitutional (whatever that would mean), they simply struck the words "under god".

What about the above reasoning do you find unbelievable?

[Digger]

Are you Freepers willing to lose everything for a few entrenched traitors? How much more of this will it take to get ALL fo us to become active to the cause ---that doesn't mean E-Mails.

[Lucas1]

Pledge Declared Unconstitutional

By DAVID KRAVETS

Associated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the Pledge of Allegiance is an unconstitutional endorsement of religion and cannot be recited in schools.

[spectre]

It should be overturned by the Supreme Court.."In God WE Trust"...sw

[Lucas1]

I honestly thought this was a joke when I first read it. It is not. This is PATHETIC. Where is America heading? This is just crazy....unbelievable

[Texaggie79]

I don't care if someone found it in a box of CrackerJacks. The Pledge is very well worded and has the true meaning of patriotism. It should be required of every person that attempts to become a citizen of our great nation.

There is no pledge to others, no pledge to any community or collective. It is to the very republic that guarantees you your liberty.....

[Dimensio]

Shhh...we need to maintain the illusion that the "under God" segment was in the original pledge as written by its socialist author and not later inserted at the opposition of his family in order to create a symbolic mark against "godless communism". That way people who oppose "under God" sound even worse.

[WakeUpChristian]

immigrants

[beowolf]

Saber....I am speachless. Nay, totally disgusted. The hell with the 9th Circuit. They suck.

[Recovering_Democrat]

9th Circuit Court Web Site:
http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/

[JulieRNR21]

What next?.....Will they strike all reference to the CREATOR on the Declaration of Independence?

Our nation was founded by men who were shaped by Judeo-Christianity....these PC judicial wackos are trying to destroy the very foundations of our nation.