http://www.newscloud.com/section/pledge Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:49:42 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 en-us http://www.newscloud.com/read/Georgia_Republican_instructs_House_on_proper_Pledge_of_Allegiance_technique The pledge had no reference to a diety until 1954, when Cold War fever saw its inclusion to separate Americans from "godless Communists." The Supreme Court dismissed a case arguing that the phrase violated the First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of religion because the plaintiff had no standing to argue the case, not because of any inherent legal justification for the phrase.

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