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Article: PLEDGE I RATTLED OFF AS KID WAS GOD-LESS.(Life and Arts)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- June 29, 2002
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Byline: JON HAHNP-I COLUMNIST
IT TOOK ME years to remember that we were "one nation, under God," and now we are once again, officially and by federal appellate-court ruling, God-less.
The striking down as unconstitutional the requirement for recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance (revised, 1954 edition) this week by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals because of that "under God" part, will no doubt precipitate some impassioned July Fourth speeches. (The judge who wrote the opinion has since put the ruling on hold until other judges on the court decide whether to rehear the case.)
There were impassioned speeches back in 1954, when President ...