Finally. Something interesting.
June 26th, 2002
Court Rejects Pledge of Allegiance
The Pledge of Allegiance is an unconstitutional endorsement of religion and cannot be recited in schools, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
Full story [via MSNBC.com]
I’m listening to people call in to MSNBC right now, and I have to say religious people scare me. Tune in for yourself.
Look, I’m not anti-Pledge. I like the pledge, it’s heartwarming (or, on my more paranoid days, a little scary) to know that all over our country, every morning before class, kids are reciting it. But finally someone’s decided to take on the phrase “under God,” which was only added in 1954 by Congress following a campaign by the Knights of Columbus to separate us from the godless Soviets.
Speaking of Congress, let’s take a peek back in history to just a few months ago, when lawmakers were pushing for the pledge to be in more schools.
Some interesting background available at A Short History of the Pledge of Allegiance.