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“The God of the Pledge of Allegiance was not my God, was not even Jefferson’s God,” he said. “It was the God of a government that was fighting godless communists.”
The debate centered on a decision handed down in June by California’s 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court ruled in a 2-1 decision that Congress violated the Establishment Clause when it added “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance...
Dershowitz said that at the time Congress added “under God” to the pledge, he was an Orthodox Jew, and decided to stop saying the pledge.
Yet in the case of the pledge, an adolescent must make the decision to stand and recite it or be ridiculed by his peers for “not believing in God,” Dershowitz said.
He cited a case in which a 17-year-old high school student refused to stand for the pledge and received death threats from fellow students.