The following article expresses my opinion on this issue much better than I could type it, starting where it says, "One may wonder, are those two words genuinely divisive?" and ending with "So, the Pledge as it currently reads is divisive and it is use in a divisive manner. " That says it all.
http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQ...gov_pledge.htm
I didn't realize that Syc had already started a thread on this...so how do I get rid of the thread I started? (Do I have to get UT to do that?)
Sidhe
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