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Our representatives in Congress were very concerned with today's appeals court decision about the pledge, according to this Boston.com article. Here are some of the highlights, with my comments:
Senators, who were debating a defense bill, stopped their business to work on a resolution criticizing the decision of a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
Ummm...priorities? Hello! Surely you folks have real work to do?
The decision was written by Judge Alfred T. Goodwin, whom Senate President Pro Tem Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., called an "atheist lawyer."
In the United States, we let atheists be lawyers. And judges, too. To do otherwise would be religious discrimination, which is unconstitutional.
"Let us not wait for the Supreme Court to act on this," said Sen. John Warner, R-Va. "Why don't we go ahead and formulate this amendment, put it together, have it in place, presumably with all 100 United States senators."
ThankGod goodness we don't have any atheist Senators!
Senators, who were debating a defense bill, stopped their business to work on a resolution criticizing the decision of a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
Ummm...priorities? Hello! Surely you folks have real work to do?
The decision was written by Judge Alfred T. Goodwin, whom Senate President Pro Tem Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., called an "atheist lawyer."
In the United States, we let atheists be lawyers. And judges, too. To do otherwise would be religious discrimination, which is unconstitutional.
"Let us not wait for the Supreme Court to act on this," said Sen. John Warner, R-Va. "Why don't we go ahead and formulate this amendment, put it together, have it in place, presumably with all 100 United States senators."
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