Atheist Newdow pledges to defeat pledge
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/news/050915h.asp
By Paul Strand
Christian Broadcasting Network, Virginia
Sept. 15, 2005
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Now that a federal judge has gone along with Newdow and banned the
pledge in three school districts in Sacramento County, it sets up
what will almost certainly be a re-match in the Supreme Court.
Terence Cassidy, attorney for the school districts involved, fought
Newdow in the high court before, and will argue again that, "The
pledge is a patriotic exercise. It's not akin to a prayer and it's
certainly not an excessive entanglement with the government. It is
certainly just a representation of our religious tradition in the
history of the United States." Newdow claims that reciting the
pledge violates students' freedom of religion. But Cassidy points
out that "students recite the pledge on a voluntary basis. No
student is ever forced to recite the pledge." Newdow's former wife,
Sandy Banning, just happens to be a big fan of the pledge, and an
opponent of activist judges.
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American Theocrats - Past and Present
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The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
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