Remember, the 9th is the most liberal Circuit court in the country, and has previously ruled against the use of “Under God” vis a vis the Pledge of Allegiance in schools (reversed by SCOTUS) in Newdow v. U.S. Congress. Among other activist and crazy decisions. So, how the heck did they come up with this?
A federal appeals court upheld the use of the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance and “In God We Trust” on U.S. currency, rejecting arguments Thursday that the phrases violate the separation of church and state.
The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel rejected two legal challenges by Sacramento atheist Michael Newdow, who said the references to God are unconstitutional and infringe on his religious beliefs.
Dude!
All religion is mental illness, an addiction to being lied to and a psychosis… No references to gods should ever be officially connected to our gov’t… religics should not be allowed to vote since their low I.Q. brains are controlled by some kind of foreign Middle Eastern religion…
.. The 9th Court changed its ruling because EvilBushJr. appointed a Catholic Mexican religic to it… also, the Supreme Court is also packed with 6 Catholics now, so the homo foreign Poop over in the Vatican runs the USA these days… the same Nazi Poop and his brother who were just linked to sexually abusing kids…
I hear something buzzing. Something extremely tiny… eh. Not even worth noticing, let alone squashing.
Teach, even a clock as busted up as the 9th CCA is right once in a great while!
As a Christian, I personally have no problem with these statements in the pledge and on our currency. However, I don’t believe we should force everyone to pray to my God, but I’m not sure this qualifies as that. It’s definitely a gray area.
What I do think is ridiculous, though, is the idea that “In God We Trust” was on our currency from the very beginning, which some people actually believe.