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This is insanity:
Judge: Pledge unconstitutionalIs it that big of a horrendous thing to say or let alone hear those two little words in the Pledge of Allegiance?
A federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., ruled the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools is unconstitutional.
The pledge's reference to one nation "under God" violates school children's right to be "free from a coercive requirement to affirm God," said U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton.
A federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., ruled the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools is unconstitutional.
The pledge's reference to one nation "under God" violates school children's right to be "free from a coercive requirement to affirm God," said U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton.
Karlton granted legal standing to two families represented by Sacramento atheist Michael Newdow, who lost his previous battle before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The judge, nominated to his seat by President Carter in 1979, said he was bound by the precedent of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' in 2002, which favored Newdow.
Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Newdow's case 8-0 because he did not have legal standing to represent his daughter, who is under sole custody of her mother.
In January, however, Newdow filed a complaint in federal court in Sacramento, Calif., with eight new co-plaintiffs, seeking to remove "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance on the grounds it violates the so-called "separation of church and state."
Last month, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a Virginia case that the pledge was constitutional, points out Mathew D. Staver, president and general counsel of Liberty Counsel, which filed a brief in the high court case.
Today's Sacramento ruling will be appealed to the 9th Circuit, Staver said, and if ruled unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court likely will take the case and, this time, address the merits.
You know - everyone is perfectly capable of saying the Pledge of Allegiance without saying 'under God' like everyone else.
And don't tell me that reading it causing your eyes to bleed either. Get over it.
But if they insist upon hauling this back to the Supreme Court, then so be it.
But you realize that should the Court overturn these rulings and it is laid out that the two words 'under God' are not unConstitutional....well then, they themselves will be screaming about 'activist judges' and out 'it was a rigged case to begin with' with some 'Bush told the Court to rule against us!!' thrown in for flavoring.
This is what I'm talking about.! This guy, Michael Newdow, is ultra wimpy,,,I rate his dating ab
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The Other Mike S said:
I'm in the same boat, Mikey. My two boys will be out of college in 6 or 7 years (they're High sc
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Mad Mikey said:
Both my wife and I were of the same notion - leave California ASAP - but for the moment, we're go
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Tetzman said:
yet another reason I'm glad I left Khalifornia in 1993....
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yet another reason I'm glad I left Khalifornia in 1993....
|| Posted by Tetzman, September 15, 2005 08:24 AM ||Both my wife and I were of the same notion - leave California ASAP - but for the moment, we're gonna stay here. Not for love of Cali-psychos, or of earthquakes, but rather to keep my daughter 'rooted' in a community; I got yanked around too much as a kid and I don't want her to have that same 'problem'....besides, those that would cause me grief and/or harm already FEAR me....muaaaahahahahahaaaaa!!!
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, September 15, 2005 08:52 AM ||I'm in the same boat, Mikey. My two boys will be out of college in 6 or 7 years (they're High school junior and seniors now). As soon as they're done, OR if they go to an out of state college, we're off. Probably to Nevada so we're close to our families. I can't take it much longer here in The People's Republic.
|| Posted by The Other Mike S, September 15, 2005 06:04 PM ||This is what I'm talking about.! This guy, Michael Newdow, is ultra wimpy,,,I rate his dating ability 0-. Because he wasn't savyy enough to become an internet porn addict or blogger, he turned his lack of talent toward the darkside.
|| Posted by Sweet Eugenia, September 16, 2005 06:53 AM ||