From: ghost_of_morphy@hotmail.com   
      
   "Dissident"  wrote in message   
   news:3FDD9BF3.1040201@7600.net...   
      
      
   > But now we enter a classroom where the Pledge of Allegience is   
   > being recited.  If I participate, I must say the words "under   
   > God" or I will stand out, and most likely suffer some form of   
   > censure, ostracism, perhaps overt punishment.  This is no longer   
   > an issue of "freedom from religion", this is blatant and direct   
   > imposition of a specific religion by the government.   
      
   It is?  Which religion?   
      
   >   
   > It is the same as if your freedom of speech (and thus, my lack   
   > of freedom _from_ speech) was suddenly turned around to require   
   > me to repeat the tenets of your party ("One nation, under Bush,   
   > with neo-conservatism, no welfare, no homosexuality, and no   
   > divorce for all") instead of simply giving you the right to repeat   
   > them to your heart's content.  That's when it becomes fascism.   
      
   Fascism?    I don't think you know what fascism means.   
      
   >   
   > And the Pledge of Allegience, as it stands today, is religious   
   > fascism.   
   >   
      
   Frankly, I could care less whether little children recite the Pledge of   
   Allegiance in school or not.  But if you object to the school as a   
   government organization imposing it's views upon students, surely you should   
   realize that you should object to the WHOLE pledge, not to the two little   
   words "under God."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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