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“In accordance with the Constitution, FL law does not require students to recite the pledge...” writes FL’s attorney general. “...but it (FL) does ask them to obtain written parental permission in order to opt out”.

That doesn’t make sense. If students are not required to recite the pledge, then they don’t have to. Why should a student have to get a note not to do something he is not required to do?

Further on, Bill McCollum writes: “While the Supreme Court has correctly upheld certain rights of children in public schools, these protections are targeted to protect them from coercive governmental policies, not from their parents.”

So it is parents who have coerced their children into saying the pledge in school? It looks more like the attorney general, a member of a government. who seems to be coercing children to say the pledge. If “every morning, all across America...” children are saying the pledge, that sounds like a decree went out from an emperor like Caesar Augustus.

President Bush surely must have said the pledge millions of times. But he constantly calls the U.S a democracy. The pledge says, correctly, we are a republic. And that we are one nation. And if the God we are under, is the One who decreed “Thou shalt not kill”, as well as; “thou shalt not commit adultery”, Bush & a whole lot of adults are the ones who should be coerced into learning it.

Labels: State of Florida and the Pledge of Allegiance