12-11-2002, 03:30 AM
*****WEPLEDGE.COM UPDATE*****
The federal court of appeals panel that ruled the Pledge of
Allegiance unconstitutional has affirmed its opinion and decided
the father who initiated the case may continue his suit despite
the fact that he lied about his daughter being offended by the
Pledge.
Michael Newdow's daughter and her mother are members of Calvary
Chapel in Laguna Creek, CA. His daughter nor her mother knew
about the suit prior to it being filed. The daughter's mother
has gone to court to get the girl's name removed from
Newdow's suit.
The court's ruling, if upheld, would make America an atheistic
state. Federal judge Alfred Goodwin, who along with Judge Stephen
Reinhardt made the ruling, had this to say: "When school
teachers lead a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance according
to school district policy, they present a message by the state
endorsing not just religion generally, but a monotheistic
religion organized 'under God.' The pledge to a nation
'under God,' with its imprimatur of governmental sanction,
provides the message to Newdow's young daughter not only that
non-believers, or believers in non-Judeo-Christian religions, are
outsiders, but more specifically that her father's beliefs are
those of an outsider, and necessarily inferior to what she is
exposed to in the classroom."
Judge Goodwin's comments make clear that he and Judge
Reinhardt, who is married to the executive director of the
Southern California chapter of the ACLU, consider America an
atheistic country and they intend to officially make it so using
their power as federal judges. The only way to keep these two
judges from taking God out of our Pledge of Allegiance and
national motto is to strip them of their power to do so by
putting the Pledge and motto into our constitution.
Please help us secure signatures to the proposed constitutional
amendment by forwarding information to all your family and
friends. Thanks.
Donald E. Wildmon, Chairman
American Family Association, sponsor of WePledge.com
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The federal court of appeals panel that ruled the Pledge of
Allegiance unconstitutional has affirmed its opinion and decided
the father who initiated the case may continue his suit despite
the fact that he lied about his daughter being offended by the
Pledge.
Michael Newdow's daughter and her mother are members of Calvary
Chapel in Laguna Creek, CA. His daughter nor her mother knew
about the suit prior to it being filed. The daughter's mother
has gone to court to get the girl's name removed from
Newdow's suit.
The court's ruling, if upheld, would make America an atheistic
state. Federal judge Alfred Goodwin, who along with Judge Stephen
Reinhardt made the ruling, had this to say: "When school
teachers lead a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance according
to school district policy, they present a message by the state
endorsing not just religion generally, but a monotheistic
religion organized 'under God.' The pledge to a nation
'under God,' with its imprimatur of governmental sanction,
provides the message to Newdow's young daughter not only that
non-believers, or believers in non-Judeo-Christian religions, are
outsiders, but more specifically that her father's beliefs are
those of an outsider, and necessarily inferior to what she is
exposed to in the classroom."
Judge Goodwin's comments make clear that he and Judge
Reinhardt, who is married to the executive director of the
Southern California chapter of the ACLU, consider America an
atheistic country and they intend to officially make it so using
their power as federal judges. The only way to keep these two
judges from taking God out of our Pledge of Allegiance and
national motto is to strip them of their power to do so by
putting the Pledge and motto into our constitution.
Please help us secure signatures to the proposed constitutional
amendment by forwarding information to all your family and
friends. Thanks.
Donald E. Wildmon, Chairman
American Family Association, sponsor of WePledge.com
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[signature]