[Servant of the Nine]

I am old enough that when I learned the pledge, the phrase wasn't in there.
Adding it was a pathetic little slap at "Godless Comunism" and acomplished nothing except to break the word flow of thte pledge and cause division among Americans.

It is past time to take it out and use the original pledge.

So9

[rwfromkansas]

yawn.

[TheBattman]

I think you will find that - although a few will agree with you - you are, by far, in the minority in your opinion.

Even the majority of very liberal Clinton lovers I know very much support the "Under God" statement. To deny God in our pledge is a refusal to give God the thanks for our country in the first place. Don't forget, without God's Grace, the United States would not be here. He has blessed our country through almost 227 years (not including the "colony days", despite our turn away from Him.

I think it's only moral and right to at least aknowledge him when we recite the pledge.

[pollywog]

Sorry, I am old enough that I know it both ways, and I TOTALLY DISAGREE with you. We are ONE NATION...under God. Our currency displays, " in GOD we TRUST".....ya want that changed too???

[LiberalBuster]

Right on. There are far more important things than trying to keep in place what was installed during the Red Scare sixty years ago.

[c-b 1]

I too learned the pledge before "under God," was added, I was in favor of the addition at the time, I am very strongly opposed to it's removal now.

A slap at communism is always worthwhile.

[JulieRNR21]

Our national motto on our money says: In God We Trust!

Our Declaration of Independence names the Creator as the source of our Liberty!

It is appropriate to say....ONe Nation, Under God!

[Dimensio]

Except that the judges forbade anyone from using the words "Under God" under penalty of law.

Well, they didn't, but if we say that they did then it sounds meaner and it justifies being vindictive. Quite a few people spent some time insisting that the ruling made it ILLEGAL for anyone to use the phrase "under God" when uttering the Pledge. In other words, quite a bit of the backlash is based on willful ignorance.

[FreeLibertarian]

I am old enough that when I learned the pledge, the phrase wasn't in there.

Adding it was a pathetic little slap at "Godless Comunism" and acomplished nothing except to break the word flow of thte pledge and cause division among Americans.

It is past time to take it out and use the original pledge.

So9

I also am old enough to have learned the original pledge and I agree the phrase "under God" is an unnecessary divisive distraction. We should use the original version of the pledge.

[elfman2 on another computer]

I think you’re generally right. This is like the anti-flag burning law/amendment issue. More symbolic than substantive. It brings out the hot headed emotional side of the RP, not our best public face. This is not the hill I want to die on.

[E Rocc]

I am old enough that when I learned the pledge, the phrase wasn't in there.

Adding it was a pathetic little slap at "Godless Comunism" and acomplished nothing except to break the word flow of thte pledge and cause division among Americans.

It is past time to take it out and use the original pledge.

Exactly. In their zeal to sneak in a government endorsement of religion through the back door, they took a unifying pledge and added a divisive clause. Anytime the Pledge is recited in public, the synchronization of the recitation falls apart after "one nation".

Hopefully the plaintiffs challenged the 1954 law that added "under God", as well as the Constitutionality of saying the "new" Pledge in schools. If that's the case, the Supremes can simply invalidate it as religiously based (as they will no doubt do if they look at the legislative history). If not, they are likely to refuse to decide an issue which had not been brought before them, and feel compelled to toss the whole thing. Which would be a shame.

-Eric

[steplock]

"It is past time to take it out and use the original pledge"

That could be, but it was put there through legal legislature, and it should be through the legislature that it be removed.

NOT through the efforts of left-wing radical extremist judges.

My personal thoughts on Prayer in School & the GOD in the pledge?

They should NOT be in there "by law" but neither should they be BANNED "by law". Both are bad and subject to abuses.

[goodseedhomeschool]

LET US NOT FORGET THAT MIKE NEWDOW, THE CREEP WHO STARTED THIS IN THE FIRST PLACE, LIED!!!!!!!
HIS DAUGHTER GOES TO CALVERY BAPTIST CHURCH IN COSTA MESA AND SHE LOVES THE LORD AND NEVER WANTED ANY PART OF THIS, NOR DID HER MOTHER.
I CAN SEE WHY THIS WOMAN LEFT THIS LEFTIST, ATHEIST FREAK IN THE FIRST PLACE.
NEWDOW NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT UP ON CHARGES OF AT THE VERY LEAST CONTEMPT.

[GretchenEE]

Didn't Ike get the words "under God" inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance ... shortly after we and our allies won World War Two?