{"id":601,"date":"2002-06-28T11:13:13","date_gmt":"2002-06-28T19:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/28\/good-ruling-bad-timing\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T09:09:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T17:09:48","slug":"good-ruling-bad-timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/28\/good-ruling-bad-timing\/","title":{"rendered":"Good ruling, bad timing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16049,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2002\\\/LAW\\\/06\\\/26\\\/pledge.allegiance\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16050,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com\\\/cgi-bin\\\/texis.cgi\\\/web\\\/vortex\\\/display?slug=pledgehistory27&amp;date=20020627&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com\\\/cgi-bin\\\/texis.cgi\\\/web\\\/vortex\\\/display?slug=pledgehistory27&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Okay &#8212; so the Pledge of Allegiance has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2002\/LAW\/06\/26\/pledge.allegiance\/index.html\" title=\"CNN: Lawmakers blast pledge ruling\">ruled unconstitutional<\/a>, and everyone in the country seems to be up in arms over it.<\/p>\n<p>My take on the whole thing? Good ruling, bad timing. I happen to think that the ruling is quite correct &#8212; for a country that is supposed to have a Constitutionally-mandated seperation of church and state, the two words &#8220;under God&#8221; in the Pledge have always stood out to me as being a bit inappropriate. Of course, when you realize that those two words were <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com\/cgi-bin\/texis.cgi\/web\/vortex\/display?slug=pledgehistory27&amp;date=20020627\" title=\"Oath has evolved since 1892\">added in 1954<\/a> as a counter to similar pledges being recited by the &#8220;godless commies&#8221; during the Cold War, it becomes even more obvious that it was a deliberate blurring of that speration between church and state.<\/p>\n<p>However, I don&#8217;t think that the ruling is going to stand. In today&#8217;s political climate, with both patriotism and religious fervor running high due to the (ahem) &#8220;War on Terrorism&#8221;, I just don&#8217;t think that even the Supreme Court (should the case make it that high) will have the will to uphold this ruling. A shame, too &#8212; no matter my personal religious beliefs, I fully support the decision that was made here.<\/p>\n<p>Simplest solution? Why not just take the words &#8220;under God&#8221; out of the Pledge?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s political climate, I just don&#8217;t think that even the Supreme Court will have the will to uphold this ruling. A shame, too &#8212; no matter my personal religious beliefs, I fully support the decision that was made here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}