I feel the argument really circles the adult complainers childhood memories, and are unable to get past the minor issues that seem so huge to young people. Of course this very statement makes it a viable issue for the child, as well.
The argument stems from organizations that, through the use of peer-pressure, force children to adhere to certain class mores, among them religion. Not directly, but the pressure to adhere remains very real. When the class is called to rise and recite the Pledge of Allegiance, who is to say there is not an eight-year-old child, completely lost on the issue, having a hard time understanding how the Christian child beside him could possibly mean the same god as the one his Hindu parents taught him. And if they are indeed different gods, does it somehow change the Pledge of Allegiance -- which raises the question of which is the right god.
A tough issue. Just one in a long list of reasons I never applied for a supreme court position.
Cheers,
Dan
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