A federal court has sensibly upheld a New Hampshire law that directs schools to provide time for students to voluntarily recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation — the same group that recently pressured Hamilton County Schools to end voluntary prayers as they had traditionally been conducted at extracurricular events — sued over New Hampshire’s law. The foundation absurdly claimed students’ constitutional rights were violated by the phrase “under God” in the pledge. The group wanted the law overturned.
Fortunately, a panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the foundation’s ridiculous claims and upheld the New Hampshire law.
That is good news.
It is bad news, however, that the Freedom From Religion Foundation has had some success in clamping down on First Amendment free speech rights in other schools.