IN GOD WE TRUST/UNDER GOD

Court OKs Pledge of Allegiance, use of 'God' on money as constitutional
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Recommend A federal appeals court has upheld references to God on U.S. currency and in the Pledge of Allegiance, rejecting arguments that they violate the constitutional separation of church and state, the Associated Press reports.

The ruling was a reversal of the same court's controversial decision in 2002 that the pledge violated the First Amendment ban on government endorsement of religion.

"The Pledge of Allegiance serves to unite our vast nation through the proud recitation of some of the ideals upon which our Republic was founded," Judge Carlos Bea wrote in Thursday's 2-1 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Bea noted that schools do not require students to recite the pledge, which was amended to include the words "under God" by a 1954 federal law.

In a separate 3-0 decision, the appeals court upheld the use of the phrase "In God We Trust" on U.S. coins and currency, citing the court's earlier ruling that the phrase is ceremonial and patriotic and "has nothing whatsoever to do with the establishment of religion."

This is one of the Greatest Decisions the Courts could have ever made.

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