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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: TimF who wrote (52720)7/8/2002 5:39:16 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (3) of 82486
 
If school prayer or reciting the pledge with "under god" in it is establishment of religion then I would say that non dominant religions can be "established".

In my mind, the Pledge is only establishment in the context that it represents the dominant religion. If it didn't, if it said, instead, under Allah, then it wouldn't be establishment. However, we have to recognize that there's no way that Congress would ever support adding "under Allah" to the Pledge. That is simply because it isn't the dominant religion. So the salient aspect of this is the context of the dominant religion.
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