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Judicial Follies: The fixed star
During the days when the war clouds of the Second World War gathered, many states had passed statutes requiring public school students to salute the flag. (At the time, it was done with the arm extended, palm down — which today looks uncomfortably like the Nazi salute. The “hand on the heart” pose may well have come about because of that.) But however one posed when making the salute, one group who would not adhere to those statutes were members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses faith. The Witnesses interpreted obedience to such statutes a violation of Exodus 20:4-5, which forbids the making of “any graven image” or bowing down to such images — including a nation’s flag. In a 1940 case that reached

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