"I was concerned that the American public would be led to believe that my daughter is an atheist or that she has been harmed by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, including the words 'one nation under God,"' Sandra Banning said in a statement. "We are practicing Christians and are active in our church."
Banning never married Michael Newdow, the third-grader's father and the atheist behind the pledge lawsuit. She has full custody of the girl, which Newdow is challenging in court.
John says: She has a child out of wedlock, and now the high road is to put down atheism and make atheists out to be spiritually devoid monsters on the intellectual level of amoebas. The whole Pledge reaction sounds a lot like the beginnings of a new Cold War, or even scarier, an 18-years-too-late Orwellian reality.
