Friday, September 16, 2005

Unrelated news, kind of....

I was browsing through the news pages and I saw this article that read "Federal Judge Rules Pledge Unconstitutional". I read into it and it read: an atheist by the name of Michael Newdow was trying to, for the second time, to remove the Pledge of Allegiance from public schools on the behalf of his daughter. I found it interesting because I think that this is an age old discussion and I think it should've been solved a long time ago. Everyone should know that not everyone has the same religion, so why put the Christian God in a public school reciting? It's like, you're forced to say your institution, the place you learn and grow is under God whether you like it or not, or whether you believe in him or not. I just don't agree with forcing religions on other people. In this case, its a little more indirect because I don't know whether they made her stand up and recite the Pledge or they let her sit down but obviously there was a problem if that dude had to say something about it. Well, ultimately, the judge ruled it unconstitutional to have the pledge in public schools and now I know I probably made a lot of people down in the south disappointed, but who cares that my opinion. I don't think a person of the Christian faith would like it if they were an exchange student in China from here, and then they had to recite every day: "..One Nation, Under Buddha". That's it.