When NBC cut the phrase “under God” for the Pledge of Allegiance during its coverage of the US Open golf tournament last weekend, it was obvious that the Religious Right would seize on it … and that is exactly what they did.

And it was equally obvious that, in reacting to this incident, they would also wildly overreact … which exactly what they are doing now, with the Family Research Council now demanding “the network play a public service announcement featuring the Pledge of Allegiance, in its entirety, daily” and produce an entire program to explaining why “under God” was added to the Pledge: