[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 19]
[House]
[Pages 26411-26412]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 THE SUPREME COURT CONSIDERS THE PLEDGE

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, this year, the Supreme Court will take up the 
case of whether children should be allowed to say the words ``under 
God'' in the Pledge of Allegiance. This cartoon captures an important 
point of this case: Does the first amendment allow porn but not God in 
public discourse?
  The ACLU would like you to think so. Their challenge to our laws, 
which protect our kids from online porn predators, is ridiculous. They 
want to be

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this teacher in the cartoon holding up a computer in front of your 
child saying, ``You cannot pledge allegiance 'under God' but, here, 
look at some pornography.''
  The fact that this case even made it so far as the courts is a 
travesty. Something is very wrong with our courts. They say child 
pornography on the computer is perfectly legal, but the pledge is so 
offensive that we have to get rid of the words ``under God.''
  The ACLU is out to sacrifice religion on their own little altar of 
pornographic speech. This is wrong. The Court should do the right thing 
for this country, for our children: uphold the pledge and the freedom 
that is ours to pledge allegiance under God.

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