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Are we a nation "under God"?
As this issue of The American Enterprise goes to press in June, the U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance are a violation of the separation of church and state. In 2002, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco decided by a two-to-one vote that the phrase represented an un-Constitutional "endorsement of religion" and "a profession of religious belief ... in monotheism."
President Bush termed this decision "ridiculous." Senate minority leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) called it "nuts"; Governor George Pataki of New York said it was "junk justice." The Senate passed a resolution, 99 ...
- The Supreme court would play God in favoring the `right to...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times January 19, 1997 700+ words
...their lives before God and the fallen...dictate? If the Supreme Court rules in its favor...decision by their god, the Supreme Court. This is why Congress...is whether the Supreme Court is Lord, the people are Lord or God is Lord. The answer...
- Are we God's country, or not? The Supreme Court de-Christianizes America.(OPED)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times August 29, 2003 700+ words
...of the Alabama Supreme Court building in Montgomery...hostility of the Supreme Court to any official...a nation under God. His defiance...monuments that had God's law, the Ten...50 years, the Supreme Court has erected a judicial...
- Protecting our freedom of religion: Congress has a golden opportunity to...
- Magazine article from: The New American Detweiler, George February 6, 2006 700+ words
...jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. Moreover, since...1070 deny to the Supreme Court jurisdiction to...acknowledgement of God as the sovereign...jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. Although events...acknowledgement of God as the sovereign...
- More dancing in the dark.(church and state, secularism, and Supreme Court...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Leo, John June 28, 2004 700+ words
The Supreme Court's evasive nonruling...the phrase "under God" belongs in the Pledge...our currency and "God save the United States...honorable court" at the Supreme Court and a similar blessing...defenders of the "under God" phrase, this is...
- The God squad: what's the difference between a politically conservative Supreme...
- Magazine article from: The American Prospect Jacoby, Susan January 1, 2005 700+ words
...biblically ordained by God, and that blacks were...of Bush's favorite Supreme Court justice, Antonin Scalia...resisteth the ordinance of God; and they that resist...other speech in which a Supreme Court justice explicitly used...legal directions from God and the Bible," says...
- ACLJ Pleased Supreme Court Dismisses Pledge of Allegiance Case; Students Get...
- Press release article from: Business Wire June 14, 2004 700+ words
...today the U.S. Supreme Court reached the proper...phrase "under God" in the Pledge...pleased that the Supreme Court reached the proper...the words 'under God' can continue...decision, the Supreme Court has removed a dark...
- Supreme Court Druids: Modern human sacrifice to ancient gods.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight Waldock, Humphrey January 1, 2001 700+ words
...to Thor, the thunder god, by three blows to the...principles; note what these gods stood for: Thor--Power...judges proclaimed the God of life, love and obedience...exhumed, the Canadian Supreme Court judges in R. v. Big M Drug Mart held that all gods are equal, in order to...
- Archbishop preaches to justices: Supreme Court hears arguments for `God's word'...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Mizejewski, Gerald October 5, 1998 700+ words
...yesterday urged U.S. Supreme Court justices on the eve of...to see at least dimly God's actions and purposes...just a day before the Supreme Court begins its fall term...Washington, invoked God's blessing and guidance...