A lawsuit in Massachusetts asks the court to remove the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance recited in public schools each morning on the grounds it discriminates against non-believers. The attorney for the schools claims there should be no objection to those words since children aren't required to recite the Pledge.
Really? So showing a picture of Adolf Hitler and having the children raise their right arms and shout "Sig Heil" would be just fine as long as the kids can opt out of doing it? "Those are fully grown mature independent-thinking 5-year olds," you say, "who can choose not to do something that violates their fundamental beliefs, so what's the problem?"
What, indeed?
The court before which this case will be heard is the same court that made Massachusetts the first state to allow same sex marriage. There is hope sanity will prevail again.
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