(RNS) Atheists want you to sit down for the Pledge of Allegiance

Sit down and shut up.

That’s the message of a campaign launched Monday (Sept. 8) by the American Humanist Association, asking Americans to refrain from standing and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance until Congress removes the phrase “under God.”

The 29,000-member humanist activist group, which also advocates on First Amendment issues, holds that the phrase “under God” is an unconstitutional establishment of religion.

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One comment on “(RNS) Atheists want you to sit down for the Pledge of Allegiance

  1. Northwest Bob says:

    So their religion, which happens to be atheism, trumps ours? Lord have mercy.
    In the Faith, NW Bob