Federal Judge Dismisses Case Challenging National Motto
Federal Judge Dismisses Case Challenging National Motto
ANN ARBOR, MI – A California federal trial judge has dismissed the lawsuit filed by Michael Newdow challenging the constitutionality of our national motto, “In God We Trust.”
Newdow is the atheist who achieved national attention in his previous unsuccessful attempt to remove the Pledge of Allegiance from public schools because it includes the words “one nation under God.”
The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, had filed a friend of the court brief seeking the dismissal of Newdow’s national motto lawsuit.
Edward L. White III, the Thomas More Law Center’s trial counsel who submitted the friend of the court brief, commented: “Our national motto does not have the constitutionally impermissible effect of establishing a religion. Rather, it acknowledges our nation’s rich religious heritage, which informed the founding of our nation.”
The federal trial judge ruled that the national motto has nothing to do with the establishment of a religion. The judge noted that the use of the national motto is patriotic and has no true resemblance to a governmental sponsorship of a religious exercise.
ANN ARBOR, MI – A California federal trial judge has dismissed the lawsuit filed by Michael Newdow challenging the constitutionality of our national motto, “In God We Trust.”
Newdow is the atheist who achieved national attention in his previous unsuccessful attempt to remove the Pledge of Allegiance from public schools because it includes the words “one nation under God.”
The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, had filed a friend of the court brief seeking the dismissal of Newdow’s national motto lawsuit.
Edward L. White III, the Thomas More Law Center’s trial counsel who submitted the friend of the court brief, commented: “Our national motto does not have the constitutionally impermissible effect of establishing a religion. Rather, it acknowledges our nation’s rich religious heritage, which informed the founding of our nation.”
The federal trial judge ruled that the national motto has nothing to do with the establishment of a religion. The judge noted that the use of the national motto is patriotic and has no true resemblance to a governmental sponsorship of a religious exercise.
posted by LD at 12:42 AM
3 Comments:
In other words, God has nothing to do with religion. The judge has a good point.
no, in other words the word GOD does nto establish a religion
Call me uncouth but I really wish Newdow would kill himself -- if only to save us, whether we be Jew, Christian, Muslim, atheist, Seventh Day Adventist, Zoroastrian, Sikh, or third world Y-chromosome mutant--from his egomaniacal hysteria. Newdow believes in the establishment of religion: the Michael Newdow Religion of Atheism and he as its black pope.
There is an obvious contradiction between the militant atheist’s quest to see that the future generations of the world are safe from the barbarity of religion and the fact—the atheist fact—that life has no transcendent purpose. How can you care about posterity when, as soon as you’re dead, that posterity effectively doesn’t exist? Sure, your ancestors may benefit—depending on your definition of benefit—but one day, “when all the world dissolves and every creature shall be purified” all your good deeds will scattered on the anonymous particles of the cosmos. Such is life in a petty, unforgiving and deterministic universe. If you don’t like that, don’t be an atheist. And from whence does that self-righteous judgment of Newdow spring? Your concepts of what is good or bad for people are completely arbitrary so there’s no point in pretending that you command any more authority than a baboon, is there?
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