Bid to remove ‘God’ from US pledge
An atheist argued the religious reference in the Pledge of Allegiance, a pledge of loyalty to the US usually recited in American classrooms, was an unconstitutional government promotion of religion in his daughter's third-grade classroom in Sacramento, California.
"I am an atheist. I don't believe in God," Michael Newdow told the justices and a packed Washington courtroom, arguing with passion and personal asides unusual for the dry, cerebral high court.
