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Who cares about custody rights or if you think those words were inserted for reasons of 'patriotism'.

To require children in public schools to state oaths that contain even a generic religious reference is wrong.

Just cause a bunch of religious folk disagree with this doesn't change the fact that the 1st amendment states 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof'. I don't see how that can be interpreted to think that the state can make kids state a pledge to a god and country combo. Requiring chidren, even with an opt out available, to state some god and country prayer before the school day is nothing I wan't my daughter being subjected to either so I say more power to this guy.

Just because some people on this board don't mind giving false lip service to oaths and other statements they disagree with doesn't mean that everyone feels that way about their beliefs.

I'm sure a lot of non-christians would have had an easy time during the Inquisition if they had only given lip service to converting to christianity and accepting christ as their savior. Is that the kind of logic you want to use to dismiss the fact that oath controversy is legitimate.