“In Michael Newdow We Trust”
Atheist/activist Michael Newdow is kind of like herpes. You can never really get rid of herpes. Well, so I hear. It just keeps coming back and back and back, and itching and burning and making you regret that drunken trip to Thailand back in ‘87. But anyway…
Michael Newdow has become a herpes of sorts. You remember Newdow as the guy who wants “God” taken from the Pledge. Newdow plans to never let up in his quest to remove God from all things until achieving his ultimate goal of forcing even God himself to have to legally change his name to “Frank”.
Newdow would have lobbied to have the TV show “Touched by and Angel” changed to “Groped by a figment of your imagination”, but the program was cancelled before he could take action.
On May 19th Newdow will appear in court. His current itchy exploit? To have the words “In God we trust” removed from money and any other public place it may appear.
The terminally pesky are like water on a driveway – continuing to ebb and flow until finding a crack to seep into where it begins to further erode the integrity of the concrete.
Early in 2004, Newdow tried to have the word “God” removed from any oaths taken at presidential inaugurations.
Appearing on FOX News’ “Hannity & Colmes” at the time, Newdow said that Bush intended to “use the machinery of the state to advocate his religious beliefs.” Newdow takes up so much taxpayer funded court time that he has put enough energy into the relationship to be considered the 9th Circuit’s common-law spouse, and he’s accusing somebody of abusing “the machinery of the state”?
A couple of years prior to that, Newdow and his allies on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutional because it contained the words “under God.” If the ruling hadn’t been overturned by a higher court, it would have applied to nine states – 10 if you counted “shock.”
Now, Newdow is after “In God we trust”. The herpes is back, and the medication isn’t working as we’d hoped.
The simple conclusion is this: Michael Newdow is Joan Crawford and the world is a wire hanger. He’ll never reach a point of satisfaction. All we can do is pray that soon he realizes that his crusade has become a regular visit to the Church of the Non-Believer. A place where words of discouragement are the daily sermon, and everyone tithes 20 percent of their time to denying God a place in national discourse. In other words, Newdow’s quest has become everything he stands against – a religion practiced in public.
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May 10th, 2006 at 10:19 am
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May 11th, 2006 at 7:41 am
I sure wish Newdow would give up his quest to eliminate God and pursue his other battle for equal parenting rights more vigorously. His “under God” pledge apparently being shot down because he “lacked standing” to represent his daughter apparently because he wasn’t married to the mother reminds me of the Dred Scott decision.
It may be more of a reflection on what the courts are willing to hear as opposed to what he prefers to pursue however, because the judiciary has a huge vested financial interest in perpetuating the myth that fathers are abusive deadbeats who should pay and pay and pay, then “visit” his children if and only if the mother permits it, while at the same time the ACLU and many judges are anxious to find ways to eliminate God from America.
May 12th, 2006 at 12:49 am
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May 17th, 2006 at 7:26 pm
[...] About a week ago, I wrote a blog post about atheist Michael Newdow’s latest quest. Newdow, having tried to have “under God” removed from the Pledge of Allegiance, among other things, now wants to have “in God we trust” removed as the national motto, not to mention from money and whatever other government stuff on which that phrase may appear. [...]
May 25th, 2006 at 7:39 pm
I fully support Michael Newdow. Christians around the world claim to have the best morality and ethics yet they only want to uphold the laws when it suits them. That is a double standard, and that’s wrong, unethical and immoral.
This is not about Christianity or atheism, it is about laws. I believe Newdow will eventually win his battle because the law is extremely clear, and any mention of god is clearly against the written laws.
This will be won, over time, just like the 26-foot cross that is being removed from public property in San Diego.
http://www.freethoughtnews.com/blog/2006/05/cross-to-be-taken-down.html
Leandro,
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