Posted on 12/04/2002 4:07:14 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:41:28 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The federal appeals court that declared reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public classrooms to be unconstitutional ruled Wednesday that the father who sued on behalf of his daughter had a right to bring the case.
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I was unfamiliar with the particulars of the PA bill that cropped up immmediately after the original 3 man panel decision by the 9th Circuit earlier this year. I do not believe that anyone is forcing someone to recite the pledge at this time but it appears I misread your initial intentions which had less to do with mandating recital of the Pledge as opposed to making sure the Pledge has time allotted. It appears we were simply shouting past each other, and I apologize for the misunderstanding.
Strange isn't it but congress could, theoretically at least, abolish the Supreme Court, but the Court could never abolish the Congress.
However it would appear they can castrate them.
In this last election we saw the courts blatantly ignore the Law, and of course with the precident set by Missouri las election, we now have a universal law, where dead people can run for office.(Patty Mink) Only seems fair though that the dead voters finally have a true representative.
Hey don't knock'em they can keep you alive in a Muslim country.
When school teachers lead a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance according to school district policy, they present a message by the state endorsing not just religion generally, but a monotheistic religion organized "under God." While Newdow cannot expect the entire community surrounding his daughter to participate in, let alone agree with, his choice of atheism and his daughter's exposure to his views, he can expect to be free from the government's endorsing a particular view of religion and unconstitutionally indoctrinating his impressionable young daughter on a daily basis in that official view.
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