• U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear Pledge’s 'under God' appeal

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Baptist Press: WASHINGTON, D.C. â€” The U.S. Supreme Court denied a request to reconsider its decision in a challenge of the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag.

On Aug. 23, the high court rejected atheist Michael Newdow's call to reopen the case. In a June opinion, the justices ruled Newdow did not have legal standing to represent his daughter. On that technical basis, the justices overruled a lower court decision that a California school district's policy requiring recitation of the pledge violated the First Amendment's ban on government establishment of religion.

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