Imagine the doublethink that makes this possible:
If it's a purely patriotic act to pledge allegiance, Carl, why'd you clutter it up with your religion in the first place? Well, duh. You wanted to conflate religion and country. You still do.In 1954, Congress added the words "under God," at the urging of the Knights of Columbus and other groups. ...
"This decision is a victory for common sense," Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson of the Knights of Columbus said in a news release. "Today, the court got it absolutely right: recitation of the pledge is a patriotic exercise, not a religious prayer...
As an aside, anyone who holds the title "Supreme Knight" gives me the willies. To a boy like me who grew up in the South, it just has too many unintended associations. Even if the Catholic K 0f C would have been a victim of the KKK in that period at least, not an ally, maybe some of the K of C's allies in 1954 did get busy because of Brown v. Board.
Personally, I was always able to defeat the single evangelical phrase of the revisionist Pledge simply by omitting it.
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My mom taught me the pledge the way she learned it in the 40s. Honestly, I'm not always sure where the "under god" goes. It doesn't matter because I just don't say that part.
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