“I do support the words ‘under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance. The American founders referred to God three times in the Declaration of Independence, the founding document of the United States.

• First, they acknowledged God as Lawgiver in the ‘laws of Nature and Nature’s God.’
• Second, they relied on God as Creator who had endowed men with the ‘inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’
• And third, the founders relied on God as the Supreme Judge of the World to judge the ‘rectitude of [their] intentions’ between the colonies and England.

The Pledge of Allegiance is a reference to God as Creator, not Redeemer, and does not establish a religion, but only an historical acknowledgement of His Providential role in the founding of America.”