Re: Fed. Judge Declares "Pledge of Allegiance" Unconstitutional

[Jean Crawford Evans <bjcraw@uidaho.edu>]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, John Harrell wrote:

> A federal appeals court, The 9th U.S. Circuit Court, ruled today that
> the Pledge of Allegiance is an unconstitutional endorsement of religion
> and cannot be recited in schools.
>
> In case someone hasn't heard about this yet, I thought I would share this
> with everyone here at Vision2020.
>

There is a very simple solution to the whole pledge thing. Go back to the
original that was written in 1891 and recited until the powers that be
kept mucking it up:

I pledge allegiance to my flag and the Republic for which it stands,
one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

School kids can then say the pledge and no one's religious views are
forced onto anyone and the US is no longer establishing one religion over
all others.

Jean C
 "Celebrate life - it has an expiration date"
http://www.uidaho.edu/~bjcraw