RNS: Pledge is Constitutional, Federal Court Rules
The Pledge of Allegiance, with its inclusion of the words “under God,” is constitutional, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday (March 11), reversing a previous ruling.
The 2-1 ruling answers a challenge by California atheist Michael Newdow, who argued that the use of the pledge in a Northern California school district—where children of atheists had to listen to others recite it—violated the First Amendment’s clause prohibiting the establishment of religion.
The “students are being coerced to participate in a patriotic exercise, not a religious exercise,” the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. “The Pledge is not a prayer and its recitation is not a religious exercise.”
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Posted March 16, 2010 at 4:39 am
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