[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

IIRC, the 14th amendment applies federal protection of rights to states.

My main question in all this is, “How is putting ‘God’ in the Pledge an establishment of religion?” Are people these days aware of what the term “establishment” even means, anymore?

[Locomotive Breath]

There is no God - you must not acknowledge him.

There is a God - you must acknowledge him.

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I gather you support using a law to make a little kid say one but not the other. As if forcing people to say one or the other will have some kind of effect anyway.