Thank you for your most literate and intelligent comment. Let’s look at what you said:

First of all, we are not pledging to God…

Yes we are. We are pledging to both the nation and to God. That’s what “one nation under God” means.

…or vowing to him our loyalty…

Yes we are. That’s what the Pledge is. A loyalty oath. That’s what “I pledge allegiance” means.

Its [sic] to our country.

No. It’s to our country.

I think it is down right [sic] rude…

No, I can’t get down with that. Maybe it’s downright rude?

…and irrogant… [sic]

I’m having trouble understanding you. The closest word is “irrigant”. Is that what you mean?

…for you to sit there and mock people who are only speaking what they feel is right.

Guess what, Julie? We live in a democracy. People are allowed to state their opinions, and other people are allowed to disagree. If you don’t like that, why don’t you move to another country?

Not only are you mocking your fellow citizens but the congress and our government.

Oh, horrors! I’m a terrible, terrible person! I’m exercising the rights guaranteed to me by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and mocking our government!

If you are so unhappy with our country why dont [sic] you speak to our founding forefathers who established the Constitution and the Pledge of Allegiance.

Why don’t you speak to a history book and learn that our founding fathers had nothing to do with the Pledge of Allegiance?

Or for the sakes of peoples [sic] faith and hope just move to another country and hopefully your [sic] happier there!

If you’re so upset with the rights granted by the Constitution, I think it is you who should move to another country.

I used to do that sort of thing myself, but I got to wondering if the congressmen just tally how many emails come in from one source and assume they’re all alike. I don’t know if it really counts as a contrary vote.

I agree with you completely, but it is not extreme. I actually don’t like the idea of the Pledge at all. Forcing people to swear a loyalty oath is the sort of thing they do in fascist countries.

Not only should “under God” be eliminated, but all of the other words should be eliminated as well. That isn’t going to happen. The blind patriots are going to make sure that the Pledge stays around forever. That’s also the reason that “under God” will remain in there forever. It tends to be the non-thinkers, the blind patriots, the “God is on our side” types, the John Wayne “my country right or wrong” types who think that the Pledge has some sort of meaning. To them, God = Country. You can’t touch one without touching the other.

Forcing schoolchildren to recite the Pledge does not make them patriotic. But since they are forced to say it, “under God” has to be removed. In its current state, it is not only an oath of fealty, but a prayer as well. Heil Amerika.

Naturally saying something like this sends the super-patriots over the edge, often provoking the tired phrase “USA, love it or leave it”. These people seem to believe that America can never do any wrong, and God is always on our side. Well, I love my children, and because I want them to grow up to be the best people they can be, I can’t turn a blind eye whenever they do something wrong. I also want this country to be the best it can be, and that means doing more than reciting words I learned in grade school. It means looking at our country as it really was and is, and learning from that. This involves contact with reality, something that is impossible for people blinded by superficial patriotism or supernatural nonsense.

So Congress, by majority vote and with the signature of the President, can make any exception it wants to regarding what the courts have jurisdiction over. If they want to remove the Pledge of Allegiance from the judiciary’s jurisdiction, they can. If they wanted to remove abortion from the court’s jurisdiction, they could - it’s perfectly Constitutional, under A3S2.

Just a note.

Irony anybody?