Quote Originally Posted by Void
So what do you guys think about the character trying to take Under God out of the pledge? I don't know if it effects any of you seeing as half might not go to school and are expected to say it every morning...what about your kids though?


if there is a God, it is not possible to take him/her out of anything.
to believe in one, then it is with this in your heart that you speak at all.


to demand a child say a thing over and over, is called brainwashing.

http://history.vineyard.net/pledge.htm
In 1892 Francis Bellamy was also a chairman of a committee of state superintendents of education in the National Education Association. As its chairman, he prepared the program for the public schools' quadricentennial celebration for Columbus Day in 1892. He structured this public school program around a flag raising ceremony and a flag salute - his 'Pledge of Allegiance.'
In 1923 and 1924 the National Flag Conference, under the 'leadership of the American Legion and the Daughters of the American Revolution, changed the Pledge's words, 'my Flag,' to 'the Flag of the United States of America.' Bellamy disliked this change, but his protest was ignored.His original Pledge read as follows: 'I pledge allegiance to my Flag and (to*) the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.' He considered placing the word, 'equality,' in his Pledge, but knew that the state superintendents of education on his committee were against equality for women and African Americans. [ * 'to' added in October, 1892. ]
In 1954, Congress after a campaign by the Knights of Columbus, added the words, 'under God,' to the Pledge. The Pledge was now both a patriotic oath and a public prayer.

beautiful but even your children don't believe it, no matter how many times you make them say it.
you teach them a truth early, it is the rich white guy that gets the liberty to buy his justice.

the framers of the constitution were all rich white guys, and the beautiful part of it was they had to steal the idea from the natives tree of peace agreement.