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To: rustbucket
I'm trying to figure it out myself. Many people here expressing outrage seem to be offended by the removal of the words "under god". Some argue that the wording is insignificant and could simply be ignored by those who don't like it...but if it is so insignificant, why the outrage? What is really wrong with removing the word string "under god" from the pledge of allegiance and restoring it to its original form?
1,317 posted on 06/27/2002 9:11:48 AM PDT by Dimensio
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To: Dimensio
It's not about the pledge itself for me. It's about the basis for the ruling: that what makes the pledge unconstitutional is the reference to God, because the mere mention alone is "an endorsement of religion". Do you not see the problem?

Congress is forbidden from ESTABLISHING a religion. The way I see it, Congress could pass a resolution tomorrow endorsing religion to the skies--"Be it resolved that religion is a GOOD thing and a benefit overall to society" etc., and there would be no problem with it constitutionally because they have neither established religion nor prohibited the free exercise thereof by its citizens (though one could certainly and reasonably have other problems or disagreements with such a resolution). An endorsement of, an acknowledgement of, an homage to, or even a mere nod to the existence of religion as a fact in our history is not the establishment of religion. But the Ninth Court has somehow ruled that it is.

They can only get away with this sort of ruling because the nation's schools--the very battleground of this decision--have gone to a lot of trouble to make sure that people no longer understand the true meaning of words, let alone the true meaning of our Constitution. Notice how many on this thread know so little about basic sentence structure that they believe "under God" is forced worship, or that they're pledging to God.

1,326 posted on 06/27/2002 9:32:38 AM PDT by hellinahandcart
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