[billbears]

I think FR ought to lead the way in staging huge displays of civil disobedience at schools in their communities.

Why? Is there somewhere in the Constitution that recommends or suggests that we say pledges to symbols? Wait a minute!! The pledge wasn't around then was it? Sorry but no can do. It's a socialist pledge meant to 'bond' the nation together after the Constitution had been subverted 30 years prior by the government of these United States

[Notwithstanding]

If you do actually believe it was a "socialist" pledge, then you should be overjoyed that pious Catholic men from the Knights of Columbus successfully lobbied the Congress to add the phrase "under God" (thats a fact - Google it and you will discover how the phrase was added).

This addition would have bben a serious blow to any schemers who had concoted a "socialist" pledge - as you put it.