http://www.the-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050810/APA/508101068&cachetime=5
An appeals court on Wednesday upheld a Virginia law that requires public
schools to lead a daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance,
rejecting a claim that its reference to God was an unconstitutional
promotion of religion.
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"Undoubtedly, the pledge contains a religious phrase, and it is
demeaning to persons of any faith to assert that the words `under God'
contain no religious significance," Judge Karen Williams wrote. "The
inclusion of those two words, however, does not alter the nature of the
pledge as a patriotic activity."
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So, it's definintely a religious phrase (and it would be DEMEANING
to all those theists to assert otherwise), but somehow all the
patriotic crap makes it OK. Somehow.
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Merlyn LeRoy
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