Pledge law upheld by federal court

[WillParkinson]

Pledge law upheld by federal court
Couple: Children's rights violated

A federal appeals court has found that a New Hampshire law requiring schools to schedule voluntary recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance does not unconstitutionally force religion upon students.

The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by a Hanover couple who claimed the rights of their three young children were violated when elementary school and middle school teachers led their classes in daily recitation of the pledge because it describes the United States as a nation "under God." The parents, identified only as Jan and Pat Doe, said their children, like them, were atheist or agnostic.

The couple in 2007 joined with the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Madison, Wis., organization promoting the separation of church and state, to sue the local school districts and the federal government. Their lawsuit challenged the constitutionality of the New Hampshire School Patriot Act, a law enacted in 2002 amid discussion of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/224547/pledge-law-upheld-by-federal-court

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. america has changed. Not for the better.

[DCKit]

2. The words "Under God" were added when I was in grade school.

That version may have been around a lot longer than that, but I remember having trouble learning and remembering the new pledge.