What's ridiculous about it? It's consistent with legal precedent, and the right to say what you want certainly includes the right to not say what you don't want to.
"U.S. District Judge Kenneth Ryskamp "
Appointed by Bush Sr.
Exactly one of the MAJOR problems in the whole system being used by Liberals today to forward their agenda.
Legal "precedent" is effectively becoming LEGISLATION FROM THE BENCH by Liberal Activist Judges, without vote of The People, by contorted and contrived interpretations of existing statute. Just because some jackass Liberal judge decides HE wants the law to mean "this" or "that", and thus establishes a "precedent" does not make it the Law of the Land as far as common sense reading and historical interpretation go.
So long as judges (like the Massachussettes Homosexual Marriage fiasco ruling) come along after 200 years of understanding and decree that the Law is "my interpretation for my agenda", then precedent means doodly-squat.
Prepare to be inundated with people who refuse to understand that:
along with the freedom to speak comes the freedom NOT to speak.
and
a 'pledge' of 'allegiance', or fealty, is an oath of subservience... exactly what the Founders refused to give to the King of England.
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Why everyone thinks it's okey-dokey to make such an oath or affirmation to an artificial creation called 'government, I will never understand.