"Many people who are upset about this are people who just don't understand," Newdow said Wednesday during an interview at his suburban Sacramento home. "People have to consider what if they were in the minority religion and the majority religion was overpowering them."
Newdow said he sued the school district and Congress, among others, in an effort to restore the pledge to its pre-1954 version.
"Congress never intended to force people to worship a religion that they don't believe in" when they added the words "under God" to the pledge, he said.
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There you have it. She 'saw' it, and 'listened' and that 'violated her rights'...her 'listening' was equated with 'forced worship'...
If I go to Rome, I expect to see and hear from some Catholics. I might be a minority, but since when does that infringe on my rights? Never. At worst I will come away better educated.
Nobody can be a minority...ever.
They are offended by the presence of anyone who believes in religion. Even at that, this is not an overtly religious statement. This violated the basic principles of tolerance that the US was founded upon.
I am not Jewish, but I can go into the home of a Jew any time and have a nice dinner and not be offended one bit!
I am really glad that my parents did not sue because they were compelled to listen to me and my classmates, my siblings and their classmates at all the various school functions that my folks attended. Afterall, they were compelled to listen too.
No doubt; but what individuals do on their own isn't the question here. We're talking about government-imposed religious indoctrination. The real solution is to get government out of the education business, but pending that, government-run institutions shouldn't impose religion on people.