The Salon website reports today (November 15, 2010) that a federal appeals court has upheld a New Hampshire law requiring schools to authorize a time each day for students to voluntarily recite the Pledge of Allegiance, finding the oath's reference to God does not violate the students' constitutional rights.
A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston on November 12 affirmed a ruling by a federal judge who found students can use the phrase "under God" when reciting the pledge.
Parents and the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) had sued the Hanover School District in New Hampshire and the Dresden School District in New Hampshire and Vermont in 2007.
They said children's constitutional rights were being violated.
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I had no idea what the word "allegiance" meant until I was in college. Same for the word "republic." And then, as an adult, I discovered just how empty were the promises of "liberty and justice for all."
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