By NCSECULAR.ORG - NEWSCHANNEL 36
Updated: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:02:14 UTC

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Welcome...

We are a coalition of secular, humanist, nontheist, and skeptic groups across North Carolina who have come together to bring you a patriotic message; we are "one nation indivisible."

We are your friends and family, your neighbors and co-workers. Whether you are religious or not we ask you to help end official discrimination and personal prejudice against your secular neighbors because of what we believe... or don't believe.

The inspiring words "one nation indivisible" is the way the original Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892. It defined the nation as a melting pot to which people from all backgrounds and beliefs could contribute. No American was excluded in that statement.

When the phrase "under God" was inserted into the Pledge in 1954, it was a direct and deliberate insult to all Americans who do not believe in a monotheistic God and all Americans who believe in the founding ideals of this country not to establish religion.

It is ironic -- and sad -- that the words "under God" were used to divide the indivisible.
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