Quotation of the Minute
Taken from Newdow vs. Congress (9th Circuit No. 00-16423)

"[T]he phrase 'one nation under God' in the context of the Pledge is normative. To recite the Pledge is not to describe the United States; instead, it is to swear allegiance to the values for which the flag stands: unity, indivisibility, liberty, justice, and — since 1954 — monotheism."

From the majority opinion of Judge Goodwin.