Pledge Ruled UnconstitutionalSo much for
stare decisis, I suppose.
I agree with the Ankle-Biters take on this; the ruling is a disaster for the Democrats. It virtually ensures that the replacement for O'Connor will be a conservative, and not a squishy moderate.
See also
Mrs Media Matters. Like her, I'm not terribly religious, but I do feel the country is under a greater threat from the areligious folks than it is from the Christians. As I suggested last year at CHRISTmas, perhaps the way to battle this is to assert that Atheism itself is a religion, and that the elimination of references to God amounts to a government endorsement of Atheism.