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		<title>Still &#8216;Under God&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m pleased with this: &#8220;Court: &#8216;Under God&#8217; in Pledge is constitutional.&#8221;
In summation &#8211; a federal appeals court ruled that the words &#8220;under God&#8221; in the Pledge of Allegiance and printing &#8220;In God We Trust&#8221; on currency doesn&#8217;t violate the separation of church and state.
So I guess because it doesn&#8217;t say which God it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m pleased with this: &#8220;<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/11/BAS71CEC9F.DTL&#038;tsp=1">Court: &#8216;Under God&#8217; in Pledge is constitutional</a>.&#8221;</p>
<p>In summation &#8211; a federal appeals court ruled that the words &#8220;under God&#8221; in the Pledge of Allegiance and printing &#8220;In God We Trust&#8221; on currency doesn&#8217;t violate the separation of church and state.</p>
<p>So I guess because it doesn&#8217;t say <em>which </em>God it&#8217;s okay?</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s reinterpret the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution">First Amendment</a> to the Constitution.  Can&#8217;t have an Congress-established religion?  Then it&#8217;s an &#8220;appeal to patriotism, not religion.&#8221;</p>
<p>Nevermind the fact that &#8220;under God,&#8221; which was added to the pledge by a 1954 federal law, was lobbied for by the Knights of Columbus &#8211; a friggin&#8217; religious group!</p>
<p>Now I realize that our country is something like 78.5% Christian (<a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html">CIA World Factbook</a>, 2007 estimate), and if you added the 1.7% of the population that&#8217;s Jewish and the 0.6% that&#8217;s Muslim we have eight of of ten Americans worshipping the same Abrahamic God.</p>
<p>But why&#8217;s it got to be on the money?  </p>
<p>Seriously!</p>
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