Wednesday, September 14, 2005
"...FOR ALL"
Michael Newdow, the Don Quixote who continues to tilt at the religious right's windmill assault on freedom in America, has won a victory in California that may drive the question of the Constitutionality of the pledge of allegiance back up to the Supreme Court, which ducked the issue on a technicality the last time Newdow got it there, finding he had no standing to bring suit on behalf of his daughter, of whom he did not have custody.
If indeed the pledge, as altered in 1954 by Congress to include the clearly unconstitutional words, "under God", ends up back before the Supreme Court--a Court that will look more like George W. Bush than it did the last time Newdow was there--we can assume the corrupt and grandstanding errand boys that pass for legislators--and let's be honest, that's what they are--will once again parade outside to stand on the steps of the Capitol and recite the pledge, stressly loudly, as they did before, the words "UNDER GOD".
When that happens, will our Democratic representatives have the sense, the imagination, and the courage to follow that inevitable piece of hystrionics with an equally loud stressing of the words, "FOR ALL!!!!!!" ?
If indeed the pledge, as altered in 1954 by Congress to include the clearly unconstitutional words, "under God", ends up back before the Supreme Court--a Court that will look more like George W. Bush than it did the last time Newdow was there--we can assume the corrupt and grandstanding errand boys that pass for legislators--and let's be honest, that's what they are--will once again parade outside to stand on the steps of the Capitol and recite the pledge, stressly loudly, as they did before, the words "UNDER GOD".
When that happens, will our Democratic representatives have the sense, the imagination, and the courage to follow that inevitable piece of hystrionics with an equally loud stressing of the words, "FOR ALL!!!!!!" ?
