Newdow v. Congress, 328 F. 3d 466 (2002), is probably the Pledge of Allegiance case. Here the Ninth Circuit agreed that “Under God” in the Pledge is violative of the Constitution, although the US Supreme Court reversed on other grounds (namely, that as a non-custodial parent, Newdow had no standing to sue over his daughter’s recitation of the Pledge). Since that case, three anonymous families have refiled and won a district court order against the phrase, and the appeal is pending again at the Ninth Circuit as Newdow v. Carey.
Considering that this country was founded by solitary, butt-hurt whiners who were fleeing from the likes of Freejooky, I can’t say I’m too surprised. Yay for wet blankets!
You can pray during the entire game if you wish, and neither I, nor the SCOTUS will have any problem with it. Hell, you can even pray to that hot dog you’re wolfing down. Knock yourself out.
Again, go to town. As long as you don’t disrupt the teacher who is busy teaching the students, I don’t care if you pledge your allegiance to a flag, the trash can, or your dirty underwear from which you just pulled that little crusty glob before eating it.
You can write “Under God” on any document you’d like. Here’s a pen.
Mainstream, middle-of-the-road society can do anything it wants to do, as long as it doesn’t trample on the rights of the rest of us in the process. Want to drink your own piss? Slurp away. Want me to drink it? Fuck off. Want to make me watch you drink it? Yep, you can still fuck off.
Congratulations asshole. Just be happy that society at large doesn’t always rule. I’m guessing I could find a rather large faction of people who would happily shit on your rights.
Indeed; I know that were I a Christian, being ruthlessly forced to pray without school supervision and enforcement would certainly ruin my day. And were I American, I’d know that I would be bending over backwards to accept the onerous task of not having my God recognised in all offical legal forms. Wherever will I get my warm bask of glow from knowing that the word of the deity with whom I have a personal, loving relationship is starkly printed in the midst of the legalese, next to “wherewithal” and “pursuant”?
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw
Butthurt is what makes change. And if you don’t like it? Change it.
Why would you be proud of forcing your religion on others? What’s wrong with praying silently to yourself and not making it a public spectacle in which those who do not participate are singled out, often to be criticized, ostracized and harassed?
There’s nothing to be proud of in ignoring the religious freedom of others.
Incidentally, the only whiner who was actually butthurt would have been John Geddes Lawrence, presumably, although I’m sure there’s a chapter on corporal punishment somewhere in your textbook.
Oh, and as you so thoughtfully pointed out in your OP, you’re a complete fucking idiot.
Kinda remarkable, isn’t it, considering that some of the most revered me in this country and indeed them men responsible for the idea of this country were a bunch of lousy traitorous criminals.
You missed a word there, but I like your version better.