The Pledge fight goes on and smart people are talking and writing about it, Ellen Goodman is not one of them:

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said, "there are so many references to God in the daily lives of this country" that the words in the pledge have no more religious meaning than the words on the coin. Maybe so. But remember that adding "In God We Trust" was also a political sop to opponents after Lincoln rejected their proposal to insert Jesus Christ into the preamble of the Constitution.

She must have meant James Lincoln or Alphonso Lincoln, because Abraham Lincoln wasn't born until 22 years after the Constitution was written.

(hat tip James Taranto)