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Living Under God

By Alliance Alert

Ken Blackwell writing in The American Spectator: [The 9th Circuit] ruled in favor of the Pledge. But the big news is ?not that the Ninth Circuit came to its senses and aligned itself with every other court that has addressed the issue. The big news is that? the Ninth Circuit did so in uniquely and dramatically conservative fashion . . . Remarkably, in an opinion joined by the liberal Judge D.W. Nelson, the Ninth Circuit adopted the Becket Fund's argument: 'The phrase "under God" is a recognition of our Founders' political philosophy that a power greater than the government gives the people their inalienable rights. Thus, the Pledge is an endorsement of our form of government, not of religion or any particular sect."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on March 18, 2010 (boomark / email).