... Putting ourselves in knots to deny Newdow standing or to claim the words "under God" are wholly non-religious are ridiculous, but they're "a testament to the condition of our Establishment Clause jurisprudence," says Thomas. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals made their anti-Pledge decision because of our 1992 ruling in Lee v. Weisman, which forbade student-led prayers at graduation. If anything, reciting the Pledge is more of a church-state violation than graduation prayer since "a prayer at graduation is a one-time event, the graduating students are almost (if not already) adults, and their parents are usually present." Purely as...