Dr. Michael Newdow, the California atheist who sued to get "under God" removed from the Pledge of Allegiance, says he has refiled a suit regarding the pledge and filed an additional suit to try to prevent members of the clergy from praying at President Bush's inauguration.
Newdow has been joined by three families who include atheists and claim they are offended "to have their government and its agents advocating for a religious view they each specifically decry." Defendants in the case include the Congress, California, the United States and several school districts. The U.S. Supreme Court determined last June that Newdow did not have standing to bring the legal challenge. Two weeks before refiling the pledge suit, Newdow filed suit in a Washington district court to try to halt designated clergy from uttering prayers at Bush's Jan. 20 inauguration. Newdow said in the Dec. 21 filing that prayers such as those offered at the 2001 inauguration by the Rev. Franklin Graham and Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell made him feel like a "second-class citizen." Well if the shoe fits..... Has anyone told him about that freedom of speech thing?
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