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A federal appeals court has ruled that the Pledge of Allegiance<\/a> is an unconstitutional governmental endorsement of religion, and cannot be recited in public schools.<\/p>\n

The phrase “under God” was inserted in 1954 by an act of Congress.<\/p>\n

\u201cA profession that we are a nation \u2018under God\u2019 is identical, for Establishment Clause purposes, to a profession that we are a nation \u2018under Jesus,\u2019 a nation \u2018under Vishnu,\u2019 a nation \u2018under Zeus,\u2019 or a nation \u2018under no god,\u2019 because none of these professions can be neutral with respect to religion,\u201d Judge Alfred T. Goodwin wrote for the three-judge panel.
\nIn the nation\u2019s first ruling of its kind, the court said that when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the 1954 legislation, he wrote that \u201cmillions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.\u201d <\/p>\n

I see their point. I really do. I even, intellectually agree with it. But …<\/p>\n

I grew up with the PoA in school. It wasn’t until the foofoorah post-9\/11 that I realized it was not part of the universal daily ritual of starting school any more. And while I understand the reasoning behind that, and even more the reasoning behind this decision, there is still that powerful sense of common ritual, that extends even beyond what the ritual words actually say. <\/p>\n

Everyone had to be quiet. Everyone had to stand up. Everyone, for a few moments, was in unison. And, yeah, that kind of thing can be insidious. But it is also a powerful socialization tool. For those few moments, we were all one classroom. We weren’t brains or dummies or girls or boys or brown-noses or screw-offs. We were all doing one thing.<\/p>\n

And that was both kinda neat and, as the court notes, and to the same degree, dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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