Should a Home Depot employee be allowed to wear a button reading, "One nation under God"? This is the wrong question to ask. By claiming that Trevor Keezor's button didn't have a "patently offensive phrase" because it's a quote from the Pledge of Allegiance, the Editorial Board misses the point.
Requiring citizens to pledge allegiance to a nation "under God" offends the principles upon which our country was founded. Those two words weren't in the original pledge from 1892 but were added during the Red Scare of the early 1950s, when the officially atheist Soviet Union became a threat to national security.
Since then, our political climate has improved, and so should our mindset toward our fellow Americans who exercise their right not to believe in gods.
