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To: SilentZ who wrote (163010)	3/5/2003 5:48:02 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576378

But the argument is not whether or not it's in the Pledge, it's whether or not, if it is in the Pledge, a public school teacher can lead the Pledge in the classroom. Honestly, it is an "is the glass half empty or half full" sort of question: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ..." To me, it is clear that this statement protects the rights of an individual to say the word "god" any damned time he wants to. Period. And any person who chooses NOT to say it, need not. I personally can't see any other interpretation of the passage. But in the "Northwest Ordinance" appears the following passage: "...the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions are erected: to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions, and governments, which forever shall be formed in said territory..." Clearly, these people were not expecting nor endorsing the notion of banning something like the Pledge from public schools.