On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 10:57 AM, Bill Frantz wrote:
During the possibly more radical 60s, some of us uttered "under Satan" during this sequence. One of my friends got a trip to the Principal's office for this, where he explained that he believed in Satan and that God was just a pretender, and if the Principal could demonstrate that the U.S. officially recognizes one deity over another he would reconsider.At 6:55 AM -0800 2/9/03, Sunder wrote:Back in the dark ages (the 1950s, and don't anyone get nostalgic for them),And also freedom of religion. Forcing someone to say "Under God" for example.
when the phrase "under god" was added to the pledge, I was a student in
school. From what they had taught me, I knew then that this addition
violated the establishment of religion clause. The solution I devised was
to simply remain silent when this phrase was said.
I don't "pledge" to either a flag or a country. I just live here. And this is where the stuff I own is located. All I ask of government is that they stay out of my way.
Unfortunately having started to question the relation between the pledge
and the ideals of the country, I started to wonder why I was pledging to
the flag, instead of the country. So over the years, I have a somewhat
edited version (removed parts in brackets):
--Tim May
