Atheist Pledge of Allegiance Case goes to Court

[blue-jay]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/31/pledge-of-allegiance-massachusetts-supreme-court_n_3846093.html?ir=Politics&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

(RNS) Massachusetts’ highest court on Wednesday (Sept. 4) will consider whether the daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance is a violation of students’ rights.

Since the addition of the phrase “under God” in 1954, the pledge has been challenged repeatedly as a violation of the separation of church and state. In 2004, one case reached the Supreme Court, but ultimately failed, as have all previous challenges.

But the current case before the state’s Supreme Judicial Court, Doe v. Acton-Boxborough Regional School District, is different because lawyers for the plaintiffs, an anonymous atheist couple, won’t be arguing about federal law but rather that the compulsory recitation of the pledge violates the state’s equal rights laws. They argue that the daily recitation of the pledge is a violation of their guarantee of equal protection under those laws.

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There is also A list of the ten most and least religious states. Interesting.

[trottigy]

Hmm, i thought the supreme court already stated a person cannot be required to say the pledge.