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  • From: Michael Czeiszperger <czei AT webperformanceinc.com>
  • To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Thoughts on the Pledge of Allegiance Decision
  • Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 08:20:14 -0400


http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/3552556.htm

As you probably already know, the 9th circuit court ruled that the phrase
"under God" that was added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 is
unconstitutional.

There's already been a lot written about the decision, most of it against,
but
most of it falls into only a few different areas:

1. The country is Christian, so majority rules and everyone else should just
learn to live with it

2. The founding fathers never intended to create a purely secular government.

The case was brought by an atheist father in CA whose daughter, while not
required to recite the pledge, was forced to listen to the phrase "under God"
every day, a situation that I may be in some day.

While it is true that atheist children frequently see references to God,
there
is a difference between seeing a church or someone wearing a T-Shirt, and
seeing and hearing every child in a public school affirm the existence of God
every day.

While I'm sure most of the children forced to recite the pledge daily never
even listen to the words as some point, I wonder what the reaction would be
if religious children were forced to listen to "One nation, in a world with
no God" every day?

This issue is going to be huge, both in Congress and in the upcoming
elections, so get ready for a slew of coverage.

--
Michael Czeiszperger
czei AT webperformanceinc.com




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