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By Jeffrey Weiss - Politics DailyIf you asked 1,000 people to list the attributes of the Almighty, how many would include "proponent of limited government"? But that was the top of the list last week for two California federal judges. Michael Newdow is a California atheist who gets his jollies watching federal courts stand on their heads to deny that the concept of God's sovereignty is essentially religious. That may overstate the case a smidge. Newdow is a California atheist. And he's spent more than a decade peppering the federal courts with challenges to the phrases "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We ...
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By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyA group of atheists is suing Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts and a gang of co-conspirators, to stop them from using the words "so help me God" when administering the Presidential Oath to Barack Obama on Inauguration Day.Michael A. Newdow, 17 other individuals and 10 groups representing atheists sued Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., several officials in charge of inaugural festivities, the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery and megachurch pastor Rick Warren. They filed the complaint in U.S. District Court.According to the lawsuit, the opening and ending prayers "are ...
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