Monday, June 11, 2012
Massachusetts court rejects challenge to 'under God' in pledge
[JURIST] A judge for the Middlesex Superior Court in Massachusetts on Friday rejected a challenge [opinion, PDF] raised by public school children and their parents challenging the inclusion of the phrase "under God" in the US Pledge of Allegiance. In her decision, Judge S Jane Haggerty ruled that the inclusion of the phrase does not automatically convert the pledge into a prayer:I can only conclude that the insertion of "under God" into the pledge has not converted it from a...
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