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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-17-05 12:35 PM
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Our Conscience Blog: My "Heckler's Veto" (On the Pledge)
Marlin Pinnell (Globe, Oct. 17th) states that a federal judge ruled that “the reference to one nation ‘under God’ violates school children’s right to be free from a coercive requirement to affirm God as their belief.” A reference to “under God” has never been and will never be unconstitutional without a fight from me but the phrase is not what was found unconstitutional. Here is the Judges’ remark in context: “…the school district’s policy with regard to the pledge is an unconstitutional violation of children’s right to be free from a coercive requirement to affirm God”

Saying “under God,” or “praise Jesus,” is perfectly legal and, in fact, protected, by among other things the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. The government forcing teachers and compelling students to recite a given religious assertion is what is improper. While most Christians are ok with the government affirming religious beliefs in America, I suspect they might not so much like it in Iran.

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