Poll Says More Americans Support Changing The Pledge Of Allegiance

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The Pledge of Allegiance is a 31-word recitation that most Americans know by heart, but there's a two-word phrase included in the Pledge that remains as controversial now as when Congress added it 60 years ago. Because of “under God,” some people refuse to say it, particularly atheists. The American Humanist Association decided to poll 1,000 adults to get their feelings about “under God,” and just over a third said they’d support removing it from the Pledge, including 90 percent of those who consider themselves atheist. The findings differ from a 2013 poll by the evangelical LifeWay Research, which revealed that only eight percent would remove “under God” from the Pledge. Scott McConnell, director of LifeWay Research, contends that most people are comfortable with the Pledge the way it is while AHA executive director Roy Speckhardt believes that the more Americans who know the Pledge was changed to include “under God,” the more they’d support restoring it back to the original 29 words. So what do you think? Should it be changed back to the original, without "under God"? Did you even know that the original did not have "under God" in it? How do you feel about the "under God" phrase? Drop me an email to johns@lacrosseradiogroup.net.