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Prayer of allegiance to continue.

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The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that Atheist Michael Newdow's brilliant victory over the prayer of allegiance to the flag in a court of appeal is null and void--on the ground that he did not have standing to sue. This means that public school children all over the country will once again have to suffer the insult of "ceremonial deism" and endure the ritualized religious assaults of zealous authorities. Fortunately, the court did not rule on the merits of the case, and so it has not spoken one way or the other on the constitutionality of the prayer of allegiance. No precident has been set ... yet.

It is not easy to be an Atheist in America, and it often is not pleasant. Everywhere we turn, we get the message "You are not wanted here."

In 'the year of our Lord' 1955, the motto "IN GOD WE TRUST" was inscribed on all the money we handle--even currency with the images of Infidels such as Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and Susan B. Anthony has been thus sanctified. The currency has effaced the free-thinking character of the persons honored. My own objection to the motto ended my twenty-year career as a teacher.

In 1956 the national motto "IN GOD WE TRUST" was adopted and trumpeted everywhere. There is a movement to plaster this patently false proposition above the porticoes of all public buildings and on the walls...

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