Choosing Our Words

Recently there’s been a lot of attention paid to the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. They were added to the pledge in the 1950s, and there has been a debate lately about whether they belong there.

We’ve been worrying about the wrong words. Based on the eleven states that amended their constitutions to alienate selected citizens from their inalienable rights, we should have been worrying about “liberty and justice for all.”