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>>>So tell me what makes you think the Constitution states to put "God" into the pledge of allegiance?
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>>I did not state it does. I simple state that a majority voted in people to represent them and the majority ruled that God should be in the pledge. I believe that Rush Limbaugh stated it best about the Separation of Church and state.
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>>"Our founding fathers did not intend to remove spiritualism from our lives. They meant to prevent organized religion from dictating law. Separation of Church and State means that the government may not impose or enact a law that makes, as a requirement of your citizenship, the belief in a particular doctrine. In other words, requiring that you must be Lutheran in order to vote, you must be methodist in order to hold public office, that you must be Presbyterian in order to own land,or that you must be baptist to allow your children to go to public school."
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>The problem with Limbaugh's statement (aside from the obvious one of his choosing only Protestant denominations as his examples) is that his examples don't go far enough.
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>Do you agree that the courts were correct to remove organized prayer from the schools? When children are expected to recite the Lord's Prayer (which is a prayer of particular denominations of Christianity), isn't that as much as telling children that this _is_ the state-sanctioned religion.

You have to define organized prayer. Do you mean stand up and recite the prayer as we tell you, to the God we tell you or else you will be expelled. Well then I think that is forcing a religion from the state. But lets say our school at the start of the day has a time of silence for designated for prayer. The student can then prayer as he/she sees fit. I have no problem with this. I have a big problem when you remove prayers at any school assembly. Just because you may say something in your prayer about the God you believe in.

Tamar I went through several school growing up and at no time did I ever feel coerced into saying (or not saying) a prayer or the pledge of alegience.