Michael Newdow
Michael Newdow
Michael Arthur Newdowis an American attorney and emergency medicine physician. He is best known for his efforts to have recitations of the current version of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools in the United States declared unconstitutional because of its inclusion of the phrase "under God". He also filed and lost a lawsuit to stop the invocation prayer at President Bush's second inauguration and in 2009 he filed a lawsuit to prevent references to God and religion from being...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth24 June 1953
CountryUnited States of America
It was never concluded and violated the Constitution, ... I think that is wrong - I'm happy that the idea is getting recognized and that a judge recognized that.
I don't ever talk about it, ... There are some Christians (co-workers) who argue I'm doing something bad, but this (lawsuit) is pro-liberty, pro-equality. The government is required to stay out of the religion business.
because I am an atheist and this offends me.
That is an actual, concrete, discrete, particularized, individualized harm to me, which gives me standing.
I tried out different openings, but most of them got torn to shreds. Some of them sounded great, then bombed big-time,
All it has to do is put the pledge as it was before and say that we are one nation, indivisible, instead of dividing us on religious basis.
I think they'll agree. That is the ultimate goal to get the Pledge of Allegiance to be for all Americans.
free from a coercive requirement to affirm God.
This is not supposed to be there. The government is supposed to stay out of the religion business.
This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools).
And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit.
No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution.
Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution.
There's a principle here, and I'm hoping the court will uphold this principle so that we can finally go back and have every American want to stand up, face the flag, place their hand over their heart and pledge to one nation, indivisible, not divided by religion, with liberty and justice for all.