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Mr. Young, who apparently thinks that more money equals more rights, is similarly misinformed regarding the Pledge of Allegiance. No one wants to "remove the pledge". Some would like to see it returned to its original wording, as penned by its Christian clergyman author in 1892. After several failed attempts by religious groups (notably the Knights of Columbus) to have God added to the Pledge, they finally succeeded in 1954, when, in the middle of the "Red Scare", President Eisenhower and Congress agreed to the change (ostensibly to differentiate the US from the USSR). Like the phrase "In God We Trust", which was added to US banknotes during the same era, it's another curious example of the dominant religion encroaching on what was unarguably intended to be a secular state, according to the Constitution.