[Demidog]

No one is forced to recite it.

If this is true then the fellow would have no standing in a court of law. Obviously he had standing else the court wouldn't have heard his case.

[B Knotts]

It is true.

What got this guy's panties in a bunch is that his daughter had to listen to other people utter the word "God."

[narses]

There is NO question he wasn't forced to recite it. He so stipulated and the decision so noted it. Facts are facts.

[Kevin Curry]

If this is true then the fellow would have no standing in a court of law. Obviously he had standing else the court wouldn't have heard his case.

Demidog, the lawyer. *Sigh*

The whiney-butt atheist weasel claimed it violated his daughter's constitutional rights because, even though she wasn't forced to recite the pledge, she could hear the other students recite it.

Let me pose a query to you, O Flea Bailey. If the other students were to recite the pledge in a language she couldn't understand--French, say--would her pappy have standing?

Atheism: improving the human condition by scrubbing the public fora free of God and duct-taping the mouths of Christian believers.

[browardchad]

From the decision of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, June 26, 2002:

Newdow's complaint in the district court challenged the constitutionality, under the First Amendment, of the 1954 Act, the California statute, and the school district's policy requiring teachers to lead willing students in recitation of the Pledge.