[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 119 (Thursday, September 21, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1777]
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                          ONE NATION UNDER GOD

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                              HON. TED POE

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 20, 2006

  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, big changes can come from small places. For 
President Eisenhower and every American born since his time, big change 
came from a dusty old church pew.
  One early Sunday morning, Eisenhower ceremoniously went to Abraham 
Lincoln's former church, where a new preacher, an immigrant, would re-
shape Ike's ideology.
  That preacher described, in his Scottish accent, how he had no answer 
for his children when asked why God wasn't in the Pledge of Allegiance.
  He eloquently assured his children God was what made America better 
than any other country. So eloquently that Ike would see the pledge 
changed in a matter of months.
  While activist judges and militant atheists want you to believe that 
taking God out of school and government is the right thing to do, 91 
percent of Americans disagree. They still believe ``in one nation, 
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.''
  We have proved that we will not bow to terrorists. But 91 percent of 
Americans also vow not to bow to extremist judges and a tiny atheist 
minority.
  Americans overwhelmingly support ``One Nation Under God'' so much 
that they are giving their children's lives to save it.
  That's just the way it is.

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