“You’re not expressing yourself, you’re just plain nude!”

Seddig sightings.

So said Professor Seddig, (All Things Jen mentor as well as good ol’ Princetonian) Oh to go back in the day at Allegheny College (anyone remember the case? Seeley? Shan Shan? Dumb? Yeah, I doubt one needs to retain this knowledge for a bar exam…Barnes v. Glen Theater. Ahhh. The Nude Dancing cases. Always a treat talking about g-strings and pasties in class. No word of nipple medallions yet.

This also made me remember that the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the Pledge oral arguments tomorrow! NPR’s Nina Totenberg was talking about HMO’s today…(coolest job ever! Listen to the justices ask questions and report on what I think they are going to decide..dream job!) Michael Newdow needs to be slammed down by the high court…bringing the case on behalf of his daughter, which is questionable because of lack of standing to sue in the first place!

Newdow’s opponents and others also give the court another option: Forget about “under God” and throw the case out on the ground that Newdow, who never married his daughter’s mother and has no legal custody over her, lacks standing to sue in the first place.

All of this only, only makes sense if the daughter actually felt coerced and ridiculed for silently choosing not to say “under God.”

Though students have always been free to remain silent during the recitation of the pledge, the 9th Circuit court ruled that the mere fact that Newdow’s daughter in elementary school had to stand and listen to “under God” violated his right to instruct her in religious matters without state interference.

But she didn’t. So why is this case allowed to continue?