wrong case, it was long ago settled that children cannot be coerced into saying the pledge with or without god.
In the Wednesday decision, Judge Lawrence Karlton said: "The court concludes that it is bound by the Ninth Circuit's previous determination that the school district's policy with regard to the pledge is an unconstitutional violation of the children's right to be free from a coercive requirement to affirm God."
``I must give him his due. He has considerably cretinized me.'' Lautréamont
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