Make that "Restore The Pledge."
Dude is surprised those polled want to "change the pledge" to take "under God" out.
Dude is apparently unaware that it would be more correct to say "restore the Pledge to it's previous state of being simply an affirmation of loyalty, rather than a religious incantation."
And BY THE WAY, why are people so caught up in the religious argument that they ignore the intellectual property argument? If the author had wanted "under God" in it, wouldn't he have put it in it? But no, that was added LATER by good old theocrat Uncle Sam.
Just wait. I'm betting next they'll put a gay stalker subplot in ATLAS SHRUGGED. Watch your back, Hank Rearden. You'll soon be being followed.
posted by The Last American at 9:11:00 AM
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For me I personally sympathize with those who don't want to say a 'pledge' at all. On the other hand, when I've said it recently, I've said "under God" as loud as anybody. Not because I have a God fetish, but because it's just one more example of liberal judicial activists that are completely out of touch with mainstream America. First of all, schools are state not federal and frankly the First Amendment only guarantees that the federal Congress won't establish religion. This may seem a minor point and I certainly don't advocate the 50 states proceeding to establish religion, but the US Constitution is silent on the matter and so should be the federal courts. To the best of my knowledge all 50 states have the same prohibition in their state constitutions, but that is a matter for state courts and not subject to any federal intervention. This may seem trivial, but it's a matter of law, Roper, and we purport to be a nation of laws.
Then there's the question of whether acknowledging God, in the sense he is acknowledge by everyone from Freemasons to Alchoholics Anonymous as "God as we understood him," is even an 'establishment' in the First Amendment sense. Historically, establishment referred to the use of tax dollars to support a particular denomination of Christianity. The founding document of the nation, the Declaration of Independence, cited the Creator in the same general sense as the pledge.
I also find it ironic that the point was argued in a court that starts each day by invoking God thus, "God save the United States and this Honorable Court!" The ultimate irony though is that removing the phrase on the say so of unelected federal judges is a greater expansion of federal power than including the phrase in a voluntary affirmation in the first place. All in all, the use of "under God" isn't worth getting in a lather about, but the out of control federal judiciary is another matter entirely.
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