Kenn Starr on the Pledge

What do you think Kenneth Starr’s position on the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance is?  Ready to be surprised?

Well, you won’t be:

As the Cold War was unfolding, Congress added the words “under God” as a more complete and decidedly relevant statement of the nation’s political philosophy. … [I]t will rightly be said that schoolchildren will doubtless feel peer pressure to participate in an exercise in which they (or their parents) emphatically disagree … [but the] answer is not to abolish the exercise itself.

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