“Many people around the world do not understand the important role that faith plays in Americans’ lives,” she said. When an Egyptian opposition leader inquired why Mr Bush mentions God in his speeches, Hughes asked him whether he was aware that “previous American presidents have also cited God, and that our constitution cites ‘one nation under God’.”
Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes quoted by Sidney Blumenthal
The word God does not appear in the Constitution.
No, it’s our money and pledge that mention God. Once again the president is confusing the issues of money and blind allegiance with our constitution.
aren’t I correct in recalling that “under God” was only added to the Pledge in the 1950s?
Neither the Constitution nor the Bill of Rights mention G-d or a creator, but the Declaration of Independence begins with
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.