I guess I just don't know enough about the law to really have a truly informed opinion about the whole "Under God" issue with the Pledge of Allegiance being said in schools all across the nation.
I know enough to know that "under God" is incredibly rude to force a Muslim, Buddhist or other non-Christian type religious type to say. It would be same as legislating that all Americans must now end their sentences with "And George Bush didn't lie." Its stupid and wrong.
But why is this even still an issue? Its clearly written in our country's owner's manual that the church and the state must be two separate entities. Why is there any question as to whether this is a valid complaint? Get your church out of the school. You'll have plenty of time to try and brainwash them into your faith based theology later.
Oh, I know, its far easier if they're raised and trained to say the words even if they don't understand or believe them. But, hey, you know what? Its not the school or government's place to generate warm bodies for conversion.
What's next, the church will come up with the Faith Pill? You take it and all your concerns and questions about God disappear into a nice hazy happy glow and it'll also make it easier for the pedophilic priesthood to bugger little Johnny. Now that's a win/win for the church.
I would love to be on the Supreme Court for this one. It would take me all of ten seconds to decide that yeah, separation of Church and State requires the stripping of all religious iconography from public places and oaths. When witnesses are sworn into court, do they still have to swear to tell the whole truth so help them God? I don't think so and they shouldn't have to. But hey, correct me if I'm wrong.
I wouldn't hold myself as accountable if I swore to tell the whole truth so help me God because, hey, I don't believe in God. I could just as easily say, so help me Roger Rabbit and it would be just as valid.
By the way, I saw an awful news story this morning about a husband who was on his way to marriage counseling with his wife (who was, ironically, a marraige counselor herself) when they had an argument that was only ended when the husband started stabbing his wife. Apparently, he was still stabbing her when the police finally arrived to deal with it.
The problem is that I've been unable to find any information on the story at all. It was on KTVU this morning but KTVU.com had nothing at all on the site about it. The man's name is Lawrence May, the murder happened in San Mateo and I just wanted to get some more information about it. Anyone know anything more? Pass it along.
[Update: Apparently, I'm one of the few people that thinks this shouldn't be in the schools at all. The wholly unscientific iWon survey today finds that 81% of people support keeping "under God" in the pledge and only 10% oppose it. But the truly scary stat is the one above it, if a woman has custody of her child then 49% of people think her opinion is the only that matters in instances like this one, where the father is suing over the "under God" line in the pledge. Only 1% of respondents think the father has the sayso and a moderate and phew-inducing 42% think that the decision should be shared. And a full 7 out of 10 don't think the Supreme Court should hear this case at all.]
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