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POLL: Matawan-Aberdeen Schools Sued For 'Under God' Phrase - What Do You Think?
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The Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District is being sued by The American Humanist Association on behalf of a local family that objects to their child participating in the Pledge of Allegiance recitation with the words “under God.”
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The family is from Aberdeen and wishes to remain anonymous, according to an announcement of the lawsuit on americanhumanist.org.
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The suit claims that daily school-sponsored recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance—declaring to students that the nation is “under God”—words added in 1954 — is discriminatory toward atheist children and their families.
You can read details of the lawsuit here.
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