Rob
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"Fighting injustice, one victory at a time."
A hot controversy has arisen over whether Michael Newdow's daughter was an appropriate plaintiff in the Pledge of Allegiance case that was recently decided by the 9th Circuit Federal Appeals Court in California. The reason for the controversy is the question about whether Newdow's daughter realizes that God is make-believe, like her atheist father does, or if the girl is a Christian like her mother.
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There are many sets of parents in America where the father subscribes to one theological perspective, while the mother subscribes to a different opinion. Each parent wants their children to adopt the same religious view as that particular parent. The last thing that a parent needs is to have the government interfere in that battle by suggesting, pressuring and coercing a child to side with one particular parent on matters of faith.
The 9th Circuit's opinion made it clear that it is unconstitutional for the government to establish monotheism as the government's preferred religious belief. The opinion also made it clear that it is unconstitutional for the government to make atheists political outsiders and god-believers political insiders. However, with Newdow's daughter as the plaintiff, the 9th Circuit's opinion also makes it clear that government shall not use its public schools to interfere in a dispute between parents about the theology of their children by telling public school students that one of their parents is right about religion and that the other parent is wrong about religion.
Newdow's daughter, therefore, is the perfect plaintiff for this case. The girl's unresolved theological situation demonstrates that the inclusion of "Under God" in a pledge which she is directed by the government to recite puts the government in the position of unconstitutionally mixing in on her family's private dispute about matters of faith.
It's none of the government's damn business. Leave the girl alone to figure out, without government interference, which parent is right about religion. Leave her parents alone to try to persuade her, without government interference, as to which parent is right about religion.
Has Newdow's daughter really been dumbed down into being a Christian, or has she been saying, "One nation under God," at her public school merely to appease the religious innuendos of her teachers?
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