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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (54)	6/26/2002 11:56:03 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 390

Well obviously current law sides with you. Call me a fool but I happen to believe that the Pledge was created with the purist of intents. I think its very spirit was meant to be very inclusive not exclusionary. Speaking those words was meant unify not polarize the people. Leave it to our litigious, over sensitive society to dissect and vilify it as if it were some cult ritual.

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (54)	6/27/2002 12:43:29 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 390

What is at issue is really the establishment clause of the first amendment. Other parts of the first amendment deal with free exercise, assembly and petition to the government. The first amendment reads: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. In my view, interpretation of the establishment clause has been taken to an extreme. The establishment clause has been extended by case law to include a rule against "excessive entanglement" of religion with public functions. This has resulted in decisions that are absurd and strain credulity. The saying of the pledge of allegiance in public schools, IMO, is hardly an establishment of religion. As with many things, the pendulum has swung too far, and I predict that in the next decade, it will swing back the other way.