raindog, please explain your comment about my off-the-cuff pledge of allegiance

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@raindog

I’ve read enough of Skald’s posts to know he wasn’t looking to set me up for a fight. (and the thread wasn’t started in GD or the Pit)

I figure a thread creates a discussion much more than a PM would.

That works for me, then.

[BigT]

@raindog

ETA
And now after looking at the OP again I see that my comments (that inspired the OP) were wrong in as much as I didn’t qualify them. (and perhaps if I had he wouldn’t have started the OP)

His pledge is not anathema to the constitution one bit.

Where I think they would be is if he took the additional step of saying “Now all children will be required to recite this new and improved Pledge.”

If you want to read this pledge every morning from the school PA system, that’s fine. If I may (or my child…) stand quietly and respectfully silent, then I think it’s all good.

The moment silence is not OK, and there is punishment for not reciting it, then we’ve violated the principles we’re paying homage to.

I’m sorry for not making that clearer.

Well, that was really my point, too. The problem is less the concept of a pledge itself, and rather the concept of being forced to say it. I just was trying to defend that on free speech grounds.

BTW: I assumed Skald made this a thread so he could others’ opinions, too.