Why do they hate America?

September 14, 2005 - 6:41pm

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A federal judge has declared it unconstitutional to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools.

What?!Â The public school system is very quickly becoming a cross between a day-care center and the public prison system.

Might as well get them ready for the real world, right?

September 14, 2005 - 5:12pm

dahjelle said

Oh, I dunno. It makes some sense. If we aren't going to be a nation "under God" then we probably should stop claiming that we are. Of course, I don't really like that option--but at least it'd be honest. I wonder what it would be like if we did decide, as a nation, to be "under God?" Not that we'd have to be a theocracy, mind you, but even just content in the idea that a lot of law and morality comes out of the idea that there is a God. I don't think that has to be antagonistic to a pluralistic society at all. David Alan Hjelle
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September 15, 2005 - 3:34pm

Adam Knight said

That's what the Declaration of Independence said, essentially. "Endowed by our Creator" and so on. Doesn't mention what god, but it does give a root that the current judicial system would rather not be there.

But the government would rather have spiritually-sterile citizens. Makes life easier for them, somehow.

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