To use government force or coercion to recite a pledge including God seems a violation of the first on religious grounds.
To use government force or coercion to recite any pledge is clearly a violation of freedom of speech. So the only question is whether force is involved. If it is, then the entire pledge has to go.
114 posted on 03/24/2004 7:51:59 PM PST by inquest
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