Take Two: 'Under God' Redux Reportedly on the Way

by Bill Fancher and Jody Brown
July 8, 2004

(AgapePress) - Those who believe in God are about to face another court challenge to their faith.

Michael Newdow, the man who lost his bid to get the two-word expression "under God" removed from the Pledge of Allegiance when the Supreme Court tossed the case out on a technicality, has confirmed he is about to launch another court challenge to the phrase. Only this time, he says, it will not be negated on a technicality.

Pro-family activist Gary Bauer, chairman of the Campaign for Working Families, says if the nation has to witness a rerun of the Newdow challenge, American Christians will be forced to take action because activist judges are ready to rule.

Gary Bauer

"Somehow we've got to convince the other two branches of government to stand up against this third branch that continues to remake America in a way that the American people would never vote to do if they were allowed to vote on it," he says.

A frustrated Bauer says this whole "anti-religion, court-oriented mentality" is just not right. "We have got to keep reminding ourselves that this is not the way we were supposed to be governed," he says.

"We were not supposed to be sitting on pins and needles every summer to find out what nine individuals on a Supreme Court were going to do about our families, about marriage, about patriotism, and about how we're allowed to worship."

Bauer says America's founding fathers never intended the nation to be ruled by un-elected judges who create laws that the people reject. He also says the nation's founders did not intend federal judges to base their rulings on the laws of other countries, but that is exactly what is happening.

Bauer names Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who cited foreign law in determining the outcome in cases related to the death penalty and overturning U.S. law against homosexual sodomy. For that very reason, Bauer says U.S. citizens need to understand that what happens in the legal realm overseas can impact America -- particularly in cases where activist judges are involved.