But they aren't forcing their religion down your throat. Merely removing your religion from their throat. You are still free to practice your religion as you see fit. Simply put, Athiests and other non-monotheists don't wish to have their tax dollars support monotheistic practices. On the same note, you don't like your tax dollars supporting abortion clinics (which is why W killed the funding to clinics which perform abortions). Quid Pro Quo, it's the same darned thing.
You can still say the pledge with all your religious fervor...but now the athiests & non-monotheists can say it with full patriotic fervor.
* Restore the Pledge to it's pre-Eisenhower condition of representing ALL Americans! *
Good thing it doesn't cost a dime to stand up and recite the pledge then, isn't it?
No, they are not. They are removing my ability to honor God in public (notice, I did not say the Catholic God, or the Jewish God, or the Muslim God, etc.)
We are told we can worship God in private, in our own homes or churches. How long until we are told that we must draw the blinds so the Athiests are not offended when they pass?
This is not freedom of religion, it is the tyranny of the non-religious. Between the liberal desire to transfer wealth, and the athiests desire to rob us of God, soon the USA will resemble the old USSR. Will you people be happy then?