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Court
to Decide on "Under God"
It
sounds impossible. How can pledging allegiance to your country be considered
unconstitutional? Yet that's the contention of a California atheist,
who objected to his nine-year-old daughter's daily pledge of allegiance
in school to "the United States of America ... one nation, under
God ..." He sued her school, saying the reference to God violated
the principle of separation of church and state supposedly derived from
the First Amendment to the Constitution. He won.
The California court's decision was appealed and now the case is before the U.S. Supreme Court. An Associated Press poll (March 24, 2004) found that almost 9 in 10 people said the reference to God belongs in the pledge, but now it is up to the Supreme Court to determine if the phrase "under God" stays or goes.
History and prophecy show that God has blessed the United States, a fact that has been recognized and publicly acknowledged by the people and leaders of the country since its founding. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln and many others called on all Americans to acknowledge their dependence on Him. What does it say about America now, if the country's highest court makes it illegal to do that in the country's pledge?
(For more information about God's involvement in the United States' past and future, read our free booklet The United States and Britain in Bible Prophecy. You can download it or order it on the Web at www.ucg.org/booklets.)
Kids Need Dads!
"Children growing up without fathers are five times more likely
to be in poverty,
are two to three times more likely to suffer from emotional and behavior problems
and to drop out of school. They are more likely to commit crime, engage in
early promiscuous behavior and commit suicide," according to Dr. Wade
Horn, assistant secretary for Children and Families of the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services.
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