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• We're stronger than the words in any pledge | Far from weakening the United States, the court's decision that the pledge was unconstitutional because of the "under God" reference was one more reminder of just how robust, just how open, just how ready to look ourselves in the eye we are (Bob Greene, Chicago Tribune)

• Price, value and the pledge | More than an atheist, Newdow seems to be a secular fundamentalist—someone intent on ridding American public life of anything he perceives as even vaguely religious (Chicago Tribune)
• A civic catechism | American schoolchildren need instruction in our political faith (Thomas F. Woodlock, The Wall Street Journal, May 21, 1945)
• One nation under judges | Do judges have too much power? (George F. Will, Newsweek)
• Folly 'round the flag | The court ruling opens the door to a serious discussion of the aggressive ideological campaign against religion (John Leo, U.S. News & World Report)
• Sermons on liberty | Faith helped build democracy here. Can it do the same in the Muslim world? (Brendan Miniter, The Wall Street Journal)
• The war of the words | The public square, including public schools, should not be purged of all religious expression (Cathy Young, The Boston Globe)
• Constitutional crossroads: Where 'under God' meets 'justice for all' | Pledge of Allegiance's religious phrase shouldn't have been inserted in 1954, but in 2002 it's a little late to change it. (Kenneth A. Paulson, Freedom Forum)
• In the pledge case, timing is everything | Just as children can be expected to get an inappropriate message from the inclusion of "under God" in the pledge, they can surely be expected to get the wrong message from its removal now (Emily Buss, Chicago Tribune)
• Toward a 'threshold' definition of 'God' | God, as I see it/him/her, should be understood as the sum total of all the forces of creativity and moral good in the universe (Marc Howard Wilson, Chicago Tribune)
• Religion and the Constitution | Perhaps we might step back and consider the broader implications of the fact that such a decision could have been made in the first place (Thomas Sowell, The Washington Times)

• The Pledge of Allegiance | Why we're not one nation "under God" (David Greenberg, Slate.com)
• One Congress, under God | Why Republicans and Democrats responded so swiftly to the Pledge of Allegiance ruling (Eleanor Clift, Newsweek)
• Is God so small he needs a Pledge for validation? | It wouldn't hurt for our more shameless leaders to remember the former price of idolatry while rushing to restore "under God" to a pledge most of them don't take seriously anyway (Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• God is not in the Constitution | The government cannot endorse any or all religions (Nat Hentoff, The Village Voice)
• For God's sake, ruling on pledge is pro-inclusion | No one is denied his right to believe as he will, by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance without a phrase tacked on for propaganda reasons a half-century ago (David Brudnoy, Boston Herald)
• One nation under … ? | What in the name of heaven does "one nation, under God" mean anyway? (Mike Kelly, The Bergen [N.J.] Record)
• Religion divide us | Court was right to dump God in Pledge (Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle)
• Right to eliminate this prayer | The "God" of the Pledge is the deity of Jews and Christians, not Buddha, Vishnu, etc (Eastside Journal, Seattle suburbs)
• Pledge class | The intensity of the public reaction the to ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is the best evidence that the court reached the right result (Matthew M. Hoffman, The New Republic)
• Pledging allegiance to fundamentalism | The response to the court's decision exposed the fundamentalism that weaves through American public life, where many confuse the worship of God with patriotism (David Corn, AlterNet)

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