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My answer is not just over this one instance - it is the ongoing pattern of what is happening in our society. Don't think we don't know what is going on.

There is an ongoing effort to remove God from America. We see it for what it is and whether they are hiding behind "they don't feel comfortable", "should someone be made to feel left out because they don't believe in God?", their claims that the U.S. constitution means no God in the public arena, don't expect us to be bowled over with the justifications for removing God from America.

I ask WHY? WHY is there such an effort to remove any mention of God, the Pledge of Allegiance? There has to be a reason and that reason is either they are so far removed from God that they cannot stand even the mention of the word, that they are doing this to remove God from America and install their Allah, or someother unknown major reason God can not be tolerated in America.

Just what is the reason?

It is not because it offends the Constitution. The constitution has stood many years with God in the middle of all America. Why now the effort to get rid of that God?

"WHY is there such an effort to remove any mention of God, the Pledge of Allegiance? "

Hmm...I say the Pledge of Allegiance the same way today as I said it when I first learned it in 1st Grade:

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

I've said the pledge thousands of times in my life, and have said it the same way each time. I am an atheist. I don't believe in any deities or other supernatural entities. If I added "under God" to the Pledge, I would be lying, you see.

So, as my 6th grade teacher told us when those words were added to the Pledge, "You can say it either way, children. Either way, you are pledging your support for our country and for its flag." Smart lady, that teacher.

So, am I less of a patriot than someone who adds those two words? I think not.

The people have come to realize that, A country can not stand for religious freedom for all if it is making one particular religion the majority. The best way for this religious freedom to continue without persecution of one over the other is for the government not to acknowledge one or the other. Basically abstaining from government religious references.