Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional
- June 26, 2002
- 1 comment
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco (where else?) has ruled that the pledge of allegiance is unconstitutional and cannot be said by students in its jurisdiction. If the decision is allowed to stand, then the next step would be to remove the “In God We Trust” from our money, stop singing “God Bless America”, “America the Beautiful”, and others, stop presidents from saying “so help me God” when they’re sworn in to office! We might as well remove the references of God in the constitution while we’re at it!
This is ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS to say the least! In no other country, that I know of, has political correctness run this much amok. You don’t see India bending over backwards to make sure no one is “offended” by their pantheon of gods. You don’t see Muslim nations bending over backwards to keep “infidels” from being offended because they pray several times a day. No where else in the world is like this. We’re becoming worse than the French!! 
Face the facts, people! People are going to be offended by something. It’s part of life. If you don’t want to say the pledge of allegiance, then don’t! But don’t become so anal about it that you feel the rest of the country shouldn’t say it either! IDIOTS!! Oops! I probably offended someone with that comment…
link: Yahoo! News
Since powerful religious institutions have a tendancy to run amok (i.e., the Middle East and Utah, among others), I fully support our founding fathers and their determination to see that there is clear separation of Church and State. With the Red scare of the 1950’s, paranoid politicians set about to show Americans, and the world that we are better than those “Godless Communists”, by slapping “God” on just about anything they could find. Nowhere however, can this even remotely be seen as an endorsement of any religion. In fact, it doesn’t even endorse Christianity in specific. It pretty much leaves it up to the individual reading, or reciting any references to God, to reconcile in their minds and hearts who God is to them. True, this does leave the Atheists out in the rain. But is it worth all that effort, time, and money tying up the court system with trivial little things that can easily be avoided anyway? I agree, if you don’t want to refer to God in the pledge.. then DON’T.
What will Americans be offended by next? Insurance policies and warranties that don’t cover “Acts of God”?