[antiRepublicrat]

It's .006 percent (six-tenths of 1 percent).

That would be six one-thousandths of one percent. I think you meant .6 percent, which is still about 1.7 million people. So if you're going to use god in a way that interferes with the religious beliefs of people, remember that you are violating the rights of 1.7 million of them.

Minority sounds small as a percentage, until you put a number on it.

[broadsword]

How does it violate your rights? Just don't say it. The thing is that you want to violate our right to free speech and to express our belief in God. We are not trying to silence you. You are trying to silence us.

And your 1.7 million can also be expressed like this: 488/2 (rounding up).

So in a room of 490 people, 488 of them are to be silenced on the whim of two, when their words brought no threat or harm to the whiney two, except that it reminded them of their emptyness. Too bad.

[Schatze]

I think you meant .6 percent, which is still about 1.7 million people. So if you're going to use god in a way that interferes with the religious beliefs of people, remember that you are violating the rights of 1.7 million of them.

You're right, it's .6 percent. But all the kids have to do is just not say the words "under God" when reciting the pledge. If hearing or seeing the word God offends them, then they had best move to a communist country because they will be offended every day in this country.