(AgapePress) - More than 200,000 Americans have signed a petition supporting a constitutional amendment to protect the Pledge of Allegiance and the national motto, "In God we trust."

A proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been introduced in both houses of Congress that would protect the Pledge and the national motto. The bills -- H.J. Res. 108 and S.J. Res. 43 -- read as follows:

"The first article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States shall not be construed to prohibit the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, which shall be, 'I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.'

"The first article of amendment to the Constitution of the Unites States shall not be construed to prohibit the recitation or use of the national motto, which shall be, 'In God we trust.' "

An online petition supporting the constitutional amendment was created in response to the controversial 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in June declaring the Pledge unconstitutional. The petition, found at the website WePledge.com, was installed following that attempt by two liberal judges in California to remove the words "under God" from the Pledge.

The website is the brainchild of Dr. Don Wildmon, founder and chairman of the American Family Association. Wildmon says WePledge.com is catching on and gaining the attention of politicians.

"We are exceptionally excited that Governor Mike Foster of Louisiana has become the first governor to sign the petition," Wildmon says. "We expect there will be many more, and we hope within the next few days to be releasing the names of those governors who have signed the petition for a constitutional amendment."

He is encouraging concerned citizens to take a stand against radical liberal judges who want to banish God entirely from American society.

"A lot of people do not realize that one of the two judges on the 9th Circuit [Court of Appeals] in California ... who took the atheist's case and ruled the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional is married to the executive director of the Southern California ACLU, which is the largest, most powerful ACLU chapter in the country," he says.

Wildmon says the only way to stop such judges is with an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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