From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 05:07:32 MDT
On Thursday, June 27, 2002 1:17 AM Robert J. Bradbury
bradbury@aeiveos.com wrote:
> Allright! Now we are getting somewhere. The 9th U.S. Circuit
> Court of Appeals has ruled the phrase "one nation under god"
> violates the separation of state and religion.
>
> Any of you parents with young children should make sure
> that they are not forced to recite the state mandated
> Pledge of Allegiance from here on out. At least for now
> we don't need "God" to bless us all.
Of course, if we just rid of public schools, this would be a nonissue.
Private schools and homeschoolers could then decide whether to recite
the current, revised 1954 version of the Pledge.
(IMHO, having a loyalty oath at all -- with or without "under God" in
it -- is just one more similarity between the current US and a classical
dictatorship. Notably, it's absolute states that typically require such
oaths and that they be periodically affirmed. That the oath isn't now
required seems only a formality.)
Sadly, though, this is causing such an uproar and will probably be
overturned.
Cheers!
Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
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