The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today in the "Under God" case that arose when a father claimed that when his daughter said the Pledge of Allegiance at school, her recitation of the words "under God" were a violation of the First Amendment's prohibition on establishing a religion (he's an atheist). A Federal Appeals Court has already agreed with him which is how the case got to the Supreme Court. The Pledge of Allegiance started in the late 1890s when northern Civil War veterans groups waged a political campaign to get the pledge recited in all schools in the United States. They succeeded although the words "under God" were not part of the original pledge. Those words were not added until 1954 as a result of a campaign by the Knights of Columbus. Members of the media who were inside the court for arguments on the case got a sense that the majority of the justices will rule to uphold "under God."