Texas: One State, Under God

An interesting note this morning from Texas, that was little noticed elsewhere, and yet bears directly on us all, in terms of our own internal cultural war, that the social left has declared on us:

DALLAS —(Houston Chronicle) A federal district judge on Tuesday denied a request for a preliminary injunction sought by a North Texas couple who objected to the words “one state under God” being added to the state pledge of allegiance and wanted to stop it from being recited.

The judge said in a one-page ruling denying the motion that David and Shannon Croft failed to show injury if the preliminary injunction was not granted.

“With today’s ruling, a federal judge denied the plaintiffs’ attempt to prevent Texas schoolchildren from pledging their allegiance to ‘one state under God,'” Attorney General Greg Abbott said in a news release. “The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held patriotic acknowledgments of the Almighty such as these are completely consistent with the U.S. Constitution.”

Earlier this month, the two filed a lawsuit contending that the Texas pledge violates the First Amendment. They filed the lawsuit on behalf of their children, who attend school in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch school district.

This spring, the state Legislature added the words “one state under God” to the Texas pledge. According to a news release from Abbott’s office, the voluntary, teacher-led recitation of the Texas pledge usually follows the U.S. pledge of allegiance in classrooms.

A call to the Croft residence was not immediately returned Tuesday evening.

I would not expect that the call would be answered.

My advice to the atheists involved; get down off the cross you’ve erected yourself on, build a bridge out of the wood, and get over it. not that I think they’ll actually take that advice.  There is a fervor involved with atheism that is religious in nature.  Put another way; If anybody thinks atheism isn’t a religion, all they need to do was watch the reaction of this case is going to receive.

If, in fact, they acknowledge such a defeat.

Addendum: (Bit)

Let’s break this down to it’s most basic:

I submit that if, as Jefferson suggested, one can be a believer,and yet not be a part of the formalized Church…(note the capital C) then  by the same token, our culture can be rooted on Christian principals,  and yet our government be removed from the power of the Church.  On that basis the phrase is acceptable.

look, I don’t think it can be denied the Christian principles were part of our western culture back in Jefferson’s day and today.  On that basis, I think it to be foolhardy to suggest that any government that day for this could be setup that ran so totally off all of these principles, as too seriously contemplate making such a pledge illegal.  I submit further, that our culture can never be separated from those principles if it intends to continue to exist as such.  On that basis, I submit that this constant haranguing about religion with an American life is damaging to American culture.  On that basis and since I hold rights to be a cultural construct, it is damaging to our civil rights as well.