While I am all for separation of church and state, I will say that the guy in CA that started this whole thing failed to take something into consideration....we are a democratic republic where majority rules....and the majority of people (in the many polls I've seen) would rather see "under God" stay in the pledge. My parents are both of the opinion that it never should have been put in in the first place (and I agree).

Money is the other issue....I agree...you don't see atheists who object to the Pledge so strongly, refusing to take money. Hmmmm....perhaps we should point that out to them.

All we are actually doing by making this a HUGE political thing and wasting the court's time and the taxpayers' money is giving this guy attention that he doesn't deserve.

As for the debate at hand. If we take God out of everything political, we may be better off. But, I don't think that's what the Founding Fathers had in mind. Our country was founded on religious freedom (although the Pilgrims and Puritans didn't practice it) and at that time the issue was just what Christian religion was being practiced. I don't think that they ever would have imagined all the other religions that would have come to these shores. Remember, the NATIVE Americans were pagan, but, the Europeans came over thinking that their way was the only way and look what happened!

So, that was a long winded explanation of my opinion which is basically that religion should stay out of politics...I'm with 2kitties.