Newdow takes temporary loss on In God We Trust
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Darn, I had missed this up until this point, but apparently Reuters reported earlier this week that militant atheist Michael Newdow suffered at least a temporary loss on the "In God We Trust" issue (that of the words being on U.S. currency).
The report apparently indicates that he plans to appeal to his favored team, the loons at the San Francisco-based U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. That court had previously ruled in his favor in his "under God" lawsuit (about his daughter, whom he does not have custody of, being subjected to hearing "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag). That decision was later overruled on a technicality by the U.S. Supreme Court, but came back again later as Newdow found people that did have "standing" and would be able to sue on behalf of their own children.
Newdow remains a confirmed whack-job. His singular focus on eliminating any and all traces, no matter how historically grounded, of "God" from out lives is nothing short of amazing.
I'd like to think he'll lose at the next stop along the way and save everyone the time of even bothering to try to go the U.S. Supreme Court on this issue, but I doubt that will happen. Even if he does lose, I'd bet he appeals to the top.
It would be nice to think that at some point the Supremes would give him the ultimate smackdown. Perhaps he can do us all a favor and be called to meet his maker while in the middle of oral arguments in front of the Supremes. (Maybe he could suffer a massive coronary, start heading towards the light, meet the greeter and then be sent back to pass along the message that he was wrong, almost dead wrong... At that point he could become an evangelist and start telling the world how wrong he had been.)
Article snippet that provided the news reported here was found at this site: www.chs-law.com.
The report apparently indicates that he plans to appeal to his favored team, the loons at the San Francisco-based U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. That court had previously ruled in his favor in his "under God" lawsuit (about his daughter, whom he does not have custody of, being subjected to hearing "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag). That decision was later overruled on a technicality by the U.S. Supreme Court, but came back again later as Newdow found people that did have "standing" and would be able to sue on behalf of their own children.
Newdow remains a confirmed whack-job. His singular focus on eliminating any and all traces, no matter how historically grounded, of "God" from out lives is nothing short of amazing.
I'd like to think he'll lose at the next stop along the way and save everyone the time of even bothering to try to go the U.S. Supreme Court on this issue, but I doubt that will happen. Even if he does lose, I'd bet he appeals to the top.
It would be nice to think that at some point the Supremes would give him the ultimate smackdown. Perhaps he can do us all a favor and be called to meet his maker while in the middle of oral arguments in front of the Supremes. (Maybe he could suffer a massive coronary, start heading towards the light, meet the greeter and then be sent back to pass along the message that he was wrong, almost dead wrong... At that point he could become an evangelist and start telling the world how wrong he had been.)
Article snippet that provided the news reported here was found at this site: www.chs-law.com.
