It boggles the mind that a US Federal Court ruled the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States unconstitutional today. This would have to go down as the penultimate moment, the "high tide" of Political Correctness in America.

For some years now, the majority of Americans have been assailed by "incrementalism". That is, small assaults on traditions and practices of the mainstream that are couched by the PC crowd as harmful to the sensitivities of minorities, whether those minorities be racial, political, disabled, or even "people of size". I certainly do not advocate racism, or prejudicial behavior against individuals because of the group that they ostensibly belong to. However, it makes no sense for the sensitivities of a few to be used against the practices of the majority in cases where it is perfectly acceptable for the minority to "opt out".

No one forces school children to repeat the Pledge in whole or in part. That alone should have been enough for the court to dismiss the case.

What next? Will the Chaplains in Congress, the military and other governmental offices be dismissed? Will the word God be struck from public buildings and our currency? Will the Supreme Court no longer invoke God’s name before its sessions begin? Will the President no longer swear an oath on a Bible repeated by the Chief Justice?

I believe that the public outcry over this travesty will compel the Justice Department to appeal the ruling, where it will be overturned without delay. The judges should be ashamed of themselves, and the person who filed the suit originally should find productive work peeling vegetables or filling potholes so that he does not have time to file such silly actions and waste the public’s time and money.