Re: POLITICS: Re: Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional!

From: Chuck Kuecker (ckuecker@ckent.org)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 14:44:01 MDT


At 03:26 PM 6/27/2002 -0400, you wrote:

>Me too. I can't image how anybody can claim that inserting an affirmation
>of God into a pledge to our country is not blurring the division between
>church and state. It clearly makes it so that non-Christians can't make
>the pledge. They literally believe we are a christian nation and that
>only christians should be citizens. (Remember Ronald Reagan saying that
>atheists don't deserve the rights of christian citizens?) The religious
>right seems determined to push their interpretation that we are a
>Christian Nation into governmental structure.
>
>--
>Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com>
>Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>

Muslims and Jews don't believe in "God"? It's an awfully generic term.

Chuck Kuecker



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