High School Student Wins Case Against Atheists Trying to Alter the Pledge of Allegiance

Photo Credit: Daily Mail A high school senior has won her case over atheists to keep ‘under God’ in the pledge of allegiance.

Samantha Jones from Highland Regional High School in Blackwood, New Jersey, has defeated efforts by the American Humanist Association to remove the phrase, insisting it is a student’s right to read the pledge in its entirety.

A judge in Monmouth County threw out the latest attempt to have the phrase banished from the pledge because it did not violate the state’s constitution.

The teenager described America as a country of many beliefs and claimed everyone, including atheists, are protected by ‘one nation under God.’

In a statement released Friday, she said: ‘I’m so grateful the court decided that kids like me shouldn’t be silenced just because some people object to timeless American values.’ (Read more about the atheists trying to alter the pledge of allegiance HERE)

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