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...states including California, Goodwin held last week that the words under God were unconstitutional because they violated the separation of church and state required by the First Amendment. He was responding to a case brought by Sacramento, Calif. emergency-room physician Michael Newdow, an atheist who argued that his daughter?s rights were infringed when the phrase was included in the pledge at her school each morning. Goodwin reasoned that saying, "we are a nation ?under God? " is equivalent to saying "we are a nation ?under Jesus,? a nation ?under Vishnu,? a nation ?under Zeus? or a nation ?under...
...That?s one of the first things you notice about this 49-year-old Sacramento area doctor. Even with 20 cameramen camped out on the lawn and the phone ringing every minute and his eight-year-old daughter spending the night somewhere else for her own safety and Newdow himself only having had an hour?s sleep since yesterday, he?s still pretty picky about language. (Don?t get him started on the lack of a gender-neutral pronoun in English. He has invented his own - "ree" - and uses it in conversation constantly.) Then again, fastidiousness is exactly what...
...Trust" written on them, he decided to use his University of Michigan legal training to sue the government for removal of the phrase. After a bit of research, Newdow decided it would be easier to protest the pledge of allegiance by claiming he didn?t want his daughter to say "under God," even though she wasn?t in school at the time. He lost while living in Florida, moved to California and sued the local school board with no prior warning. "It would have been nice if he?d come to talk to us first," says Superintendent Dave Gordon. Doing...
...Newdow, a physician with a law degree, a five-year-old daughter and an axe to grind with monotheistic religion, decided he wasn't happy about students at his daughter's school standing to say the Pledge each morning. So he took the Sacramento school district to court, charging the Pledge violated the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution, which dictates a strict separation between church and state...
...Plenty of other scenarios could emerge. Chung and other rising political stars like Park Geun Hye, daughter of former autocrat Park Chung Hee might engineer a new party to fight the election. If South Korea's Prince Charming does enter the fray, the outsider aura he's enjoying now could burn off. And, as one MDP insider and Chung skeptic puts it: "The Korean public can distinguish between sports and politics." But stretching out in his seat on the plane to Cheju, Chung already sounds like he's on the stump, talking about improving standards of living, tackling what...