Atheist renews challenge to 'under God'
Rejected by Supreme Court on technical grounds but finds new plaintiffs
Posted: November 21, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
California atheist activist Michael Newdow is renewing his fight to remove reference to God from the Pledge of Allegiance, this time with a suit filed on behalf of an anonymous New Hampshire couple against a school district.
The couple, an agnostic and atheist with three children, say in their complaint that they "generally, deny that God exists" and contend their constitutional rights are violated when school authorities require their children to "participate in making the purely religious, monotheistic claim that the United States is 'one nation under God.'"
Newdow previously sued over the inclusion of "under God" in the pledge, but his claims were rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2004 on technical grounds. The self-described atheist said he did not want his third-grade daughter to have to listen to the phrase "under God" in a public school.
Five justices, however, found Newdow did not have the legal standing to bring the case. He never married the child's mother, who has expressed support for having "under God" in the pledge.*snip*
I will give him this much, he is definitely one persistent, godless POS SOB. Hey, smart ass, if by any God-sanctioned miracle you are listening to me, let me sum it up for you here in the simplest terms possible: This country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles. Our heritage is based on the premise that our survival, and our success is due to the providence of that which is responsible for our very existence and keeps us from devolving into a smug pseudo-intellectual species governed by anarchy and conceitful arrogance. If you don't like it here and feel so threatened by something that is greater than you, there are still a few godless-communist countries left in the world that continue to enslave their citizens by mandating empty dogmas such as your own and I'm sure they would be glad to have you.
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