G-21+Con

the majority doesn't count always like if we should hang all jews, it doesn't matter because it is not right and the regular people should vote, too on this important decision.

this quote was mine and many sites like top ten pro/con

//"The practice of reciting the Pledge in public schools specifically targets children, inculcating them with a monotheistic message not held by millions of Americans. This is not a passive reading of a historic document but an active swearing of a loyalty oath to one's country and, since 1954, an avowal that our nation exists 'under God,' which is tantamount to prayer.

The First Amendment does not require hostility toward religion, but mandates government neutrality toward religion. By imposing a religious belief on those without such beliefs, the current version of the Pledge utterly fails this test."//

-the American Humanist Association

"To have kids expressing a theological principle at 7 A.M. over the loudspeaker is not a serious way to do it...It is not that we don't want God in our lives. We just don't want [Him] trivialized."

//-- Dan Fink //

"The [school's] policy and the [1954 Act adding 'under God' to the Pledge] fail the coercion test. Just as in Lee [//Lee v. Weisman//, 1992], the policy and the Act place students in the untenable position of choosing between participating in an exercise with religious content or protesting."

//--// ////Newdow v. US////

I believe that god should not be in the in the pledge because America is supposed to be open to all people of all races and beliefs. Many people move to the USA for religious freedom. Children are told everyday in their classrooms from the time they are in kindergarden to recite the pledge of alliegence, why are they to be expected to say that they are one nation __under god?__

//"There are millions of Americans who believe in God but do not believe they are "**under**" God. Some find God within their own hearts while others believe they are part of --not under-- a divine power or sacred universe. Still others do not believe in God at all." -http://restorethepledge.org///

-Sam K.

Newdow lacks standing, Stevens said, is that nothing the school board has done in requiring willing students to recite the pledge "impairs Newdow's right to instruct his daughter in his religious views."

-Natan

"The [school's] policy and the [1954 Act adding 'under God' to the Pledge] fail the coercion test. Just as in Lee [//Lee v. Weisman//, 1992], the policy and the Act place students in the untenable position of choosing between participating in an exercise with religious content or protesting."

//-- //Newdow v. US////

"The [school's] policy and the [1954 Act adding 'under God' to the Pledge] fail the coercion test. Just as in Lee [//Lee v. Weisman//, 1992], the policy and the Act place students in the untenable position of choosing between participating in an exercise with religious content or protesting."

//-- //Newdow v. US////

"...I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."

//-- Thomas Jefferson//

"The government should not be asking impressionable schoolchildren to affirm their allegiance to God at the same time that they are affirming their allegiance to the country... Removing ‘under God’ from the Pledge is not anti-religious [...] just the opposite is true. The only way the religious reference in the Pledge can be upheld is for the Court to conclude that the words ‘under God’ have no religious meaning, which is far more insulting to people of faith."

//-- American Civil Liberties Union// "People don't get angry at a recital of historical and demographic facts. People get angry because they know what it means; it's plain English. They believe what it means, they want people to say what it means, they want their kids to say what it means. And I'll tell you a dirty little secret: They want to coerce other kids to say what it means and what they believe to be true. They know that 'under God' means under God."

//-- Douglas Laycock//

“...it is not only the right thing for the Court to find in favor of Mr. Newdow and the principle of neutrality toward religion in the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. It is also in the national interest to do so.”

//-- Marci Hamilton

We have a democratic process, and the majority should do whatever it wants. But when we're talking about fundamental constitutional rights, we're in a different ballgame. --**Michael Newdow** This quote is saying that things in the constitution are set in stone and you can not change them unless the president and the other high powered leaders of this nation agree.

$Robbie P$//

The truth is that America is not only NOT a Christian nation, most people who speak God's or Christ's name are taking God's name in vain... that is, to no good useful purpose.

-Natan

Between 1924 and 1954, the //Pledge of Allegiance// was worded: "//I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands; one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all//." In 1954, during the McCarthy era and communism scare, Congress passed a bill, which was signed into law, to add the words "//under God.//" The current //Pledge// reads: ​ "//I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands; one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all//." The //Pledge// is recited, on average, tens of millions of times a day -- largely by students in schools across America.

some general infor about the history[] -Jack Z.