and the RATS, take another one in the..............................HA ha!!!
Posted on 03/11/2010 1:12:58 PM PST by Ben Mugged
A federal appeals court in San Francisco has ruled that the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional.
In a 2-1 ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel rejected arguments by Sacramento atheist Michael Newdow that the phrase violates the separation between church and state.
Newdow's previous lawsuit against the pledge in public schools reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 2004. But the high court said he didn't have the legal standing to make the challenge on behalf of his daughter.
So Newdow, who is a doctor and lawyer, filed a similar challenge on behalf of other parents who objected to their children being required to recite "under God."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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God is the most important part in the pledge of alleigance.
Will this ruling finally compel this idiot to stop filing lawsuits?
Praise The LORD!!!
Yes- son and granddaughter also per the article I read. She had two sons, both illegetimate, one followed her one did not. Evidently it was the one that did not who was the father of the granddaughter who was also killed.
Newdow, Fizz fizz
Oh what a relief it is!
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