This sentence has been a part of the school system since the mid 1950’s and only now has it come to the attention that there is something in those few simple words that can uproar such a controversy. “Under God”. To most of us these words have the same meaning that we heard of weekly in church. But to others, whose beliefs are that of an unreligious nature feel these words which their children are exposed to everyday in a public setting are of a biased nature and should be stricken from the pledge.

In 1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower instated this into every public school system. With his own words he stated ”from this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim, in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty.” Has our world changed so drastically that these words in fact have become inappropriate? President Eisenhower proclaimed indirectly that the phrase “Under God” was an appropriate term at the time. The nation was mostly catholic and

Newdow’s objection can be simply shown in his own words with this statement,”watch and listen as her state-employed teacher in her state-run school leads her classmates in a ritual proclaiming that there is a God, and that our's is “one nation under God.”” In other words, Newdow’s position was that it is unconstitutional for a state employee to lead students in an exercise, which is fundamentally religious in nature because that represents the state endorsing some particular view. When in all actuality his daughter was never required nor forced to recite the Pledge at anytime. Due to the West Virginia State Board of Education vs. Barnette case (1943) which the Court ruled 6-3 that the school district violated the rights of students by forcing them to salute the American flag.

According to William Murray and the June 20, 1988 edition of The New American, "the public schools in the United States are more rigidly atheistic than the schools in any eastern bloc nation, other than the Soviet Union. In Poland, crosses hang in the classroom. In Hungary, the Ten Commandments are still displayed on the school walls- something that would be unthinkable in our public schools. This kind of puts the whole religious connotation into perspective, but if you go by what former president Dwight D. Eisenhower says about the pledge, “from this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim, in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty”

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