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To: steve harris who wrote (582966)	6/14/2004 6:01:01 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Supreme Court Keeps 'God' in the Pledge But what I really really like is that the court did it in an ambiguous way. Americans know it not just OK, it the right thing. But the court has left open the opportunity fot the lefty loons to continue to expose their stupid ideas to the contrary..... And it tell the idiots in lower court they are ignorant of the details of law. WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court, at least temporarily preserving the phrase "one nation, under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, ruled Monday that a California atheist could not challenge the patriotic oath. The decision, which came on Flag Day, leaves untouched the practice in which millions of schoolchildren around the country begin the day by reciting the pledge. The court said the atheist could not sue to ban the pledge from his daughter's school and others because he did not have legal authority to speak for her. The father, Michael Newdow, is in a protracted custody fight with the girl's mother. He does not have sufficient custody of the child to qualify as her legal representative, eight members of the court said. Justice Antonin Scalia did not participate in the case. "When hard questions of domestic relations are sure to affect the outcome, the prudent course is for the federal court to stay its hand rather than reach out to resolve a weighty question of federal constitutional law," Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the court. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist agreed with the outcome of the case, but still wrote separately to say that the Pledge as recited by schoolchildren did not violate the Constitution. Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Clarence Thomas agreed with him. The high court's lengthy opinion overturns a ruling two years ago that the teacher-led pledge was unconstitutional in public schools. That appeals court decision set off a national uproar and would have stripped the reference to God from the version of the pledge said by about 9.6 million schoolchildren in California and other Western states. newsmax.com