The Boston Globe, June 2nd, 1993
When Congress added the phrase "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance back in 1954 as an illegitimate child of the loyalty oath controversy of the late 1940s, it never suspected that 40 years later the words would have lost any significant religious content. But that is the sensible conclusion reached by the US Supreme Court yesterday when it upheld, without comment, a lower court that had rejected the argument of an Illinois parent that recitation of the pledge in public schools violated the constitutional separation of church and state. The case had been brought by Robert Sherman, whose son...
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