To: Bandolier; RJayneJ
"And there is no right to push a religious agenda. But it is prohibited for the government to favor one religion over another." Atheism is a religion, by default. Sanitizing all language of theistic phrases creates a de-facto atheistic society.
That's unConstitutional.
Here's why the 9th Circuit Court's decision is legally flawed: It bans voluntary religious speech.
The Supreme Court has already ruled that the Pledge is voluntary. The 9th Circuit tried to ban teachers from engaging in voluntary speech.
That's illegal. The court can't ban benign voluntary speech.
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06/29/2002 5:14:25 PM PDT by
Southack
To: Southack
It can ban it when you have the authority to force subordinate people to join you in your "voluntary speech."
The ruling did not say that teachers cannot pledge allegiance, merely that they cannot lead students in doing so. The history of the pledge, since 1954, shows that it is clearly a propoganda tool. We decry liberal brainwashing in the schools, but love brainwashing them when it is something we believe in.
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