Michael Newdow
Michael Newdow
Michael Arthur Newdowis an American attorney and emergency medicine physician. He is best known for his efforts to have recitations of the current version of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools in the United States declared unconstitutional because of its inclusion of the phrase "under God". He also filed and lost a lawsuit to stop the invocation prayer at President Bush's second inauguration and in 2009 he filed a lawsuit to prevent references to God and religion from being...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth24 June 1953
CountryUnited States of America
I have the right to be able to have my child in public school without her being indoctrinated with religious belief, ... This is supposed to be a public school and supposed to be religion-free.
I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.
I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American.
This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into the public schools. Our churches are very strong in this nation and I think that's great and everybody should have the ability to worship as he or she sees fit. I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.
All it has to do is put the pledge as it was before and say that we are one nation, indivisible, instead of dividing us on religious basis.
I think they'll agree. That is the ultimate goal to get the Pledge of Allegiance to be for all Americans.
Our churches are very strong in this nation and I think that's great and everybody should have the ability to worship as he or she sees fit.
I think that everybody would not be sitting here saying, 'Oh, what harm is that.' They'd be furious. And that's exactly what goes on against atheists. And it shouldn't.
It was never concluded and violated the Constitution, ... I think that is wrong - I'm happy that the idea is getting recognized and that a judge recognized that.
That is an actual, concrete, discrete, particularized, individualized harm to me, which gives me standing.
This is not supposed to be there. The government is supposed to stay out of the religion business.
This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools).
I tried out different openings, but most of them got torn to shreds. Some of them sounded great, then bombed big-time,
Think of it as an Olympic event or a ball game: you practice first.