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Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Clarence
Thomas, made clear that they would have upheld
the religious reference.
The court’s ninth justice, Antonin Scalia,
removed himself from the case after making off-
the-bench remarks that seemed to telegraph his
view that the pledge is constitutional.
The phrase “one nation under God” is more
about ceremony and history than about religion,
Rehnquist wrote. He likened the phrase to the
motto “In God We Trust” on U.S. currency, and to
the call that opens each session of the high court
itself: “God save this honorable court.”
“All these events strongly suggest that our
national culture allows public recognition of our
nation’s religious history and character,”
Rehnquist wrote.
Nathan Diament, policy director for the Union
of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, said
most Americans would be relieved by the ruling.
“There is a consensus in this country that there
is an appropriate place for expressions of religion
in the public square,” Diament said.
The First Amendment guarantees that govern
ment will not “establish” religion, wording that
has come to mean a general ban on overt govern
ment sponsorship of religion in public schools and
elsewhere.
The Supreme Court already has said school-
children cannot be required to recite the oath that
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Before 1954, when the United States was in
middle of the Cold War, the pledge did not i
a reference to God. In adding it, members ...
Congress said they wanted to set the United Stai |
apart from “godless communists.”
In a ruling last year, the 9th U.S. Circuit G
of Appeals in San Francisco said the language
the First Amendment and the Supreme Coun
precedents make clear that tax-supported schoe:
cannot lend their imprimatur to a declaration
fealty to “one nation under God.”
That decision set off a national uproar air
would have stripped the reference to God fromilj
version of the pledge said by about 9.6
schoolchildren in California and other Westf
states covered by the appeals court.
Children were never barred from saying theft
pledge, because the lower court ruling was on ho!;
while the Supreme Court considered the issue.
Like most elementary school childrei
Newdow’s daughter hears her teacher lead itj
pledge each morning. The case began whf
Newdow, a lawyer, doctor and self-proclaimt;
atheist minister, sued his daughter’s Sacrament
area school district. Congress and President Bus
to remove the words “under God.”
In one of the many odd twists to an odd caJ
Newdow served as his own lawyer when tfJ
Supreme Court heard arguments in March. Ej
argued that each day his daughter hears the pled;:
is another day that a teacher tells her, in effect,111
her father is wrong.
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