Everybody needs their space. A space to celebrate what one believes. Tax-payer monies funding specific religious forms of expression, this could be a problem, but individuals, celebrating what they believe - we must accept it. We don't have to like it, or agree with it, but it must be allowed to exist. But, in the end, the State should not sponsor it.The 'under God' clause in the Pledge - I find the arguments on both sides are disingenuous. The pledge, with or without the controversial 'under God' is an expression of devotion, i.e. a religious expression. The founding fathers did not create it, nor did they envision citizens, under compulsion, reciting such a creed. The Pledge was created in 1892 by a Baptist minister by the name of Francis Bellamy. He was a Christian Socialist. With respect to the argument of prayer in schools - the Pledge is a prayer - thus, there is prayer in schools.I appreciate Newt's sentiments, we have a crisis in this regard, how it will work itself out remains to be seen.

Not freedom FROM religion. Of course facts will never change the vile hatreds that are the central core of the Hater's life. Whether they focus their hate against God, George Bush, Christians, Jews, non-homosexuals, whoever, their whole lives rotate around their egos and their hate of others. Great piece FNC. Thanks Hulu for allowing people to CHOOSE to view it, in spite of the fact so many pompous pretentious ego-centric Hate mongers most certainly will be very upset and angery that anyone has the choice to, or even more easily NOT to watch it.

The reason is that many of the founders didnt believe in god like evangelicals or many other christians (or jews and musliims for that matter) do today, many of them (ben franklin and thomas jefferson) were deists. A deist is someone who believes that their is a god and that that god may play a role at the very instant at the begining of time, but after that sits back and lets the universe unfold, taking no further role in our lives.

What is wrong with pointing out that the founder's believed in a God? I've never understood how folks ignore this fact all the time or somehow thought that we couldn't have both God and a government.