Perhaps you remember the name Michael Newdow. We wish we could forget him, with peace, but he keeps thrusting himself into our national consciousness. He’s “at it again.”
Newdow is the fellow who has gone to court insistently to try to get the United States Supreme Court to remove the national motto “In God We Trust” from our money and to prevent “So help me God” from being used in the presidential oath. He also wants to abolish from public schools the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
Our Constitution properly does not “establish a religion” in our nation. But it does not ban expressions of faith and religion.
Newdow, an avowed atheist, is seeking to overturn a March 2010 decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the use of “In God We Trust.”
Neither Newdow nor anyone else should ever be required to make any involuntary religious expression – nor should any of us be banned from voluntarily expressing himself or herself positively on religious matters.