Posted on 06/26/2002 11:25:21 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
UNBELIEVABLE. BREAKING ON FOX: SF APPEALS COURT SAYS PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ENDORSES RELIGION, AND IS THEREBY UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Anti-communists in the 50's wanted it done. The idea was that pledging to God (understood by all concerned to be the Christian God) would prove our moral superiority over the godless commies.
By that I mean, it may start a national debate where people for the first time realize that the words "seperation of church and state" are nowhere to be found in the Constitution.
Post 9/11, who knows where the sentiments of the country will lead that discussion?
I would imagine the Declaration of Independence will be striken soon, as it mentions (gasp) GOD..
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
It's the liberal Senate that prevents conservative justices from being confirmed. The Republican candidates can use this (and must use this) to hammer Rat candidates in the coming months.
As a godless capitalist I'm morally superior to religious commies. It's the commie part that's a problem.
1. There is no such clause in the Constitution.
2. The Establishment Clause of the 1st Ammendment says "Congress shall make no law," so why should it apply to state or local legislation... or to school districts?
3. The Constitution derives its authority from the Declaration of Independence, in which it was recognized that we are "endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights." In pursuit of the protection of those rights while assembling a national government, the Bill of Rights was ratified. How does mentioning "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance conflict with the Bill of Rights, with which the Founders understood we are endowed by our Creator?
Flags can be and have been co-poted, and used to cloak vile behavior.
Clearly written principles cannot.
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