Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional
- Thread starter Gordon Gekko
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The people against removing God from the pledge seem to say that "most people believe in God and therefore it is OK."
I say... have the Treasury take a poll of religious preference in America. Then we will put the appropriate "god" in the appropriate proprtion to the popillation.
e.g.
12% In Alah we Trust
22% In God we trust
8% In Buddah we Trust
40% " God is Dead" Nietzsche
Then we can make the pledge read...
"One nation... under my diety of choice or no diety at all.
For which it stands..."
Or we could just say that the treasury should not be involved in religion? And either should the schools.
I say... have the Treasury take a poll of religious preference in America. Then we will put the appropriate "god" in the appropriate proprtion to the popillation.
e.g.
12% In Alah we Trust
22% In God we trust
8% In Buddah we Trust
40% " God is Dead" Nietzsche
Then we can make the pledge read...
"One nation... under my diety of choice or no diety at all.
For which it stands..."
Or we could just say that the treasury should not be involved in religion? And either should the schools.
Quote from axeman:
Simple.
If you painted someones house a different color, and then a court ruled that
you did it illegally, wouldn't you be required to PAY to have
it painted back to the original color? Yep
When the majority wasted our $$$ to have our money changed
to add "In god we trust" ILLEGALLY, then the majority should
have to pay to fix the error.
When blacks and women won the right to vote, did anyone
ask them to PAY for the changes to all the voting forms, and
related machinery and processes? Of course not.
peace
axeman
If it was done "ILLEGALLY" ...how can this have been done Illegally??? I'm sorry for my ignorance on this issue, but I find it hard to believe that this was done Illegally..im sure it was done thru a process ( was it a correct process?? maybe not but illegally, nah ).........forget about them paying to change it back they should be thrown in jail to rott if it was done illegally.......
Quote from qazmax:
The people against removing God from the pledge seem to say that "most people believe in God and therefore it is OK."
I say... have the Treasury take a poll of religious preference in America. Then we will put the appropriate "god" in the appropriate proprtion to the popillation.
e.g.
12% In Alah we Trust
22% In God we trust
8% In Buddah we Trust
40% " God is Dead" Nietzsche
Then we can make the pledge read...
"One nation... under my diety of choice or no diety at all.
For which it stands..."
Or we could just say that the treasury should not be involved in religion? And either should the schools.
While i was amused at your post, you bring up an interesting point....we all assume that "Under GOD" is a specific god and that it consitutes religion and therefor should be out of public schools....yet can somebdoy please show me where in the original constituion Public schools for free were set up??????
Laws have been passed that were later found
to be unconstitutional.
The "under god" and "in god we trust" was added
during the anti-communism hysteria era, and no one
challenged it as unconstitutional UP FRONT, when they should have,
so it just happened.
This is what I mean by "illegally". They still followed the correct
process to my knowledge.
But at the time atheism was associated with communism, and
it would have been suicidal for anyone to take a stand to block this at the time.
The ORIGINAL pledge and money should be RE-INSTATED.
I don't think people should be thrown in jail just because
they successfully passed an unconstitutional law.
The law is complex, and this happens fairly regularly.
peace
axeman
to be unconstitutional.
The "under god" and "in god we trust" was added
during the anti-communism hysteria era, and no one
challenged it as unconstitutional UP FRONT, when they should have,
so it just happened.
This is what I mean by "illegally". They still followed the correct
process to my knowledge.
But at the time atheism was associated with communism, and
it would have been suicidal for anyone to take a stand to block this at the time.
The ORIGINAL pledge and money should be RE-INSTATED.
I don't think people should be thrown in jail just because
they successfully passed an unconstitutional law.
The law is complex, and this happens fairly regularly.
peace
axeman
Quote from ElCubano:
If it was done "ILLEGALLY" ...how can this have been done Illegally??? I'm sorry for my ignorance on this issue, but I find it hard to believe that this was done Illegally..im sure it was done thru a process ( was it a correct process?? maybe not but illegally, nah ).........forget about them paying to change it back they should be thrown in jail to rott if it was done illegally.......
even if that's the case, big deal. i want it out of the pledge, too, among many other people.
there should be a michael newdow action figure...like g. i. joe.
lol
you seem like a my little pony kind of guy