Flag burning should be defended as free speech. But if a grade school teacher forced her whole class to burn flags each day before class, that would be wrong.

This is the same as you have the right to pledge alliengience to your god any time you want, but it’s wrong for a teacher or administration to force their class to do it.

For once we agree! Under God (I capitalized God so I don’t potentially piss him off!) should not be in the pledge.

CraZyDAvE

If the intent is to remain religiously neutral, then how can any individual claiming a belief other than that of your “church” of reality serve in public office? A Christian may lean to those evil ten commandments in decision making and that certainly violates their religious neutrality.

There is no freedom from religion, quite conversely, “Congress Shall pass no law restricting the free practice thereof” is the law of the land, as long as you are not a Christian.

OK, it’s California, where a guy with a petition to repeal the suffrage of hamsters could get 10,000 signatures in 30 minutes. It’s ironic that ours is a nation where burning the flag is defended as free speech, but kids saying “under God” should be gagged. But really, is this the most pressing issue before a nation at war, a nation rabbit-punched by a hurricane, and a nation with a big al Qaeda target painted on its back?

On one hand, if God intended to reward us for including him in our daily affirmations before class, He might go a little easier on the hurricanes. I mean, don’t you think that admitting we’re “one nation under God” should invite some tender mercies?

On the other hand, maybe He doesn’t care what we force schoolkids to say out loud, and is more interested in how we conduct ourselves when nobody else is looking.

Who knows? The Lord hasn’t really been keeping up his blog, so we’re not sure what He’s thinking. But I can tell you what I’m thinking: These attention-starved atheists are starting to be as annoying as megawatt televangelists.