Pledge of Allegiance Again Ruled Unconstitutional

The latest round in the Pledge of Allegiance battle continues. U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton ruling the Pledge in public schools is unconstitutional, said he was bound by precedent set in 2002 by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ruling on the same subject.

The root cause of all this wasted time and money is the two simple words "under god", without which the pledge would be fine AND constitutional. Lets look at the pledge, shall we? It IS about pledging allegiance to the United States, plain and simple, and if two lousy words, which aren't necessary and weren't even in the original, are making it unconstitutional, then they gotta go, easy as that. The words "under god" were only added in 1954 anyway. In fact it wasn't until 1923/24 that the original words "MY flag" were even changed to "THE flag".
The Pledge originator was one Francis Bellamy, oddly enough, himself a Baptist Minister, who DIDN'T see the need for an inclusion of "god" in his pledge. In fact, on yet another strange twist, Bellamy and his cousin held Socialist views and that ultimately led to Bellamy's dismissal from his church.
The basic principle that makes this country so sought after by immigrants is its freedoms, and that includes freedom of religious choice as well as freedom FROM religion. As for me, it makes no difference whether you include the words "under god' or not, just as I also have always accepted BOTH evolution AND creationism. In fact I fit them together by believing that god created all around us and man was just his last and greatest, so in a sense the earth "evolved" on his schedule. Sounds like the subject of another blog........

A history of the Pledge and even better a brief Bio on Francis Bellamy here

Good references can be found here