BOSTON -- The state's highest court has opened the floodgate of opinion by seeking outside briefs in a religious-discrimination case against the Acton-Boxboro Regional School District by an atheist family that is challenging the use of "under God'' in the Pledge of Allegiance. The case is scheduled to be heard during the first week of May, but no date has been listed. The unidentified family, along with the American Humanist Association, a secular-rights group, argue in the lawsuit that the words "under God'' in the Pledge of Allegiance violate the equal-rights amendment in the Massachusetts Constitution. They also argue that the daily recital of the Pledge counts as unlawful discrimination because reciting the phrase "under God'' is endorsing a religion.
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