[AgentEcho]

The kid won't PLEDGE to the flag of the US, but the parents will use the CONSTITUTION of the US to suit their needs?

[GovernmentShrinker]

The kid won't PLEDGE to the flag of the US, but the parents will use the CONSTITUTION of the US to suit their needs?

I hardly see a conflict there, since the original intention of promulgating the Pledge, shortly after the Civil War, was to brainwash everyone into viewing the U.S. as one big homogenized entity happily existing under one big government, state sovereignty be d@mned.