[mlo]

Don't you understand that if my children were going to public school, which thank God they are not, that they would not be allowed to recite the Pledge of Allegiance? This idiotic ruling handed down today by two liberal leftist judges told this country NO MORE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. IT'S UNCONSITUTIONAL. What don't YOU understand about that???

Wrong. The headlines say the pledge is unconstitutional, not the ruling. The ruling says that teachers can't recite it with "under god".

It does not prevent your children from saying it. As far as I can tell, it does not prevent a teacher from reciting it without the "under god".

[Williams]

Wake up. The pledge contains the words "under God." Period. It is an historic national symbol not to be rewritten by the 9th Circuit or any other unelected left wing dictators. As far as I am concerned you are a lass as long as you don't say the L.

[JMJ333]

The bottom line is, that there is a concerted effort to yank God from the public arena. Its not like they are masking the effort. Same incremental steps from the bitter atheist crowd, as usual. Funny how the atheist crowd can't tolerate any mention of God. Bunch of whining losers. I wonder what they'll sue to have the word God removed from next? "In God we trust" from money?

[Dan217]

First let me state that I am so conservative that I think that Rush is a flaming liberal. That being said, I am old enough to remember reciting the pledge in school before the words "under god" was added by Pres. Eisenhower in 1954. I do think that the court ruled correctly in this case according to the 1st amendment. The pledge was written and
distributed by socalists who were interested in selling american flags to schools. Now that the current version has been used since 1954 it has become a tradition. I know that most people don't even know how to recite it properly.
The proper way is "one nation under God", not "one nation,
under God,. Like I said, I grew up reciting the pledge without the words under God. This was during WW-II and I think that we the people were just as patriotic as the folks are today. I don't personally have a problem with the addition of the words "under God", but I do think that we
should obey the Constitution.

[Dan217]

First let me state that I am so conservative that I think that Rush is a flaming liberal. That being said, I am old enough to remember reciting the pledge in school before the words "under god" was added by Pres. Eisenhower in 1954. I do think that the court ruled correctly in this case according to the 1st amendment. The pledge was written and
distributed by socalists who were interested in selling american flags to schools. Now that the current version has been used since 1954 it has become a tradition. I know that most people don't even know how to recite it properly.
The proper way is "one nation under God", not "one nation,
under God,. Like I said, I grew up reciting the pledge without the words under God. This was during WW-II and I think that we the people were just as patriotic as the folks are today. I don't personally have a problem with the addition of the words "under God", but I do think that we
should obey the Constitution.

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

The ruling says that teachers can't recite it with "under god".

So you are saying that teachers do not have the right to free excersize of religion.

[FormerLurker]

It does not prevent your children from saying it. As far as I can tell, it does not prevent a teacher from reciting it without the "under god".

Do you personally have a problem with the 'under God' part? I'm assuming you do, as you neglected to capitalize the word 'God' in the context of a Supreme Being.