Another editorial on the pledge some good points.

All this stuff about prayers at football games and graduations creates a problem that isn't solved by banning them, the spread of intolerance. If you allow them, you offend atheists, who think they are a government endorsement of religion. If you ban them, you offend the religious who feel that they are being denied their freedom of religion.

I think that the government taking the side of atheists suggests that it is against religious expression, rather than a defender. It endorses a sensitivity that is bordering on the neurotic. The fact is that we are a diverse nation and it ill behooves any of us to be too touchy about anything.

What the courts should be saying is "Grow up!" By trying to protect the sensitive feelings of one group, they have given them a veto over the rest and the power to threaten and bedevil society.