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Randy
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USA
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 Posted - 09/17/2003 : 21:39:40
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Just came across this brief story on a pledge lawsuit recently filed in Abilene, Texas. The pledge of alligence is mandatory, as of this year, for all Texas public school children to recite daily in their classrooms.
I'd say the substitute teacher mentioned below should be mowing yards by this time next week.
Good luck to the plaintiffs....
http://keyetv.com/localnews/local_story_260094622.html
Dad says "under God" must go.
Sep 17, 2003 8:43 am US/Central
An Abilene family is fighting against the Pledge of Allegiance -- over the phrase "under God." In February, an 11-year-old girl refused to say the pledge with the phrase in class. A substitute teacher told the girl she'd no right to live in America. The girl's father decided to file a lawsuit in Taylor County against the current Abilene school superintendent, the school district, the state of Texas, the U-S Congress and President Bush. The suit seeks no monetary damages, but does seek removing "in God we trust" from money, to rewrite the Pledge of Allegiance without the phrase "under God"-- and to forbid teaching theology in public schools. The Abilene school district says they're simply following the law. The district hasn't been served with papers and a court date hasn't been set yet. Senate Bill 83 went into effect on September First and mandates that public schools have the pledge to the United States and Texas flags and a moment of silence.
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ktesibios
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Posted - 09/17/2003 : 23:47:40 [Permalink]
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I'm puzzled. I had been under the impression that West Virginia Board of Education vs. Barnette had settled the issue of the state compelling the recitation of the Pledge, or any other official profession of mouth loyalty.
Writing for the majority (it was an 8-1 decision), Justice Jackson said:
"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us."
So what is the exception that the state of Texas believes it's found?
I mean, it's not like we needany more evidence that letting the South back into the Union after the Civil War was the dumbest mistake in American history... |
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