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The American government is not in balance with religion nor will it ever be. The American government is only drifting away from religion. Our first right given to us as Americans is stated in Amendment I. It says:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” In English, that means that congress shall not respect or prohibit the exercise of religion and will not take away the freedom of speech, press or the right to peaceably assemble or request from the government to fix any complaints. Now there is a problem. Yeah-yeah, we all know the dispute about the pledge “one Nation, under God…” They are now trying to take away that line in the pledge. Suzanne Herel tells about this in her article Judge Rules Pledge of Allegiance Unconstitutional . She wrote “Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools is unconstitutional, a federal court judge ruled today, saying that the pledge’s reference to “Under God” violated school children’s right to be ‘free from a coercive requirement to affirm God.’” She used a pretttty fancy word there. Coercive requirements is like saying ‘belief requirements.’ Its not required that anyone say ‘Under God’ that it is your right as an American according to the first amendment. To call it “unconstitutional” to speak of God violates that same right that gave you the freedom to not speak of Him. The first amendment gave the freedom to speak of God and to be stay apart form God. To call exercising the our right “unconstitutional” is in itself UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Ok, for all of you who don’t know what that means unconstitutional is a synonym for unlawful, unauthorized and illegal. That’s no balance of religion that, my friend, is disposing of it. If it is passed that the pledge is banned from schools as it most likely has in some public schools, it will be violating the first amendment granted to us as Americans.