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Originally Posted by Prudence
Meanwhile, the pressure to conform continues. If you don't say under God, you're not one of us.
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I don't think it is an issue for the supreme court as to whether there is pressure to conform or not. This is why the whole thing bugs me.
I would have no problem telling my children not to participate in some sort of demonstration of, say, a Native American Shaman ritual. They've done that in schools up near Flagstaff. OK - it's an educational and traditional thing, but there's a whjole lot of spirituality that goes along with it. Rather than throwing a fit, I would tell the teacher that my child would be opting out of participating for religious reasons, and we would be happy to take on some other assignment if there was homework associated with the demonstration.
Same thing here. Johovahs witnesses did not want the pledge eliminated from the schools. They simply wanted the right to sit and not say it. Fine.
Conformity and peer pressure exists everywhere. I don't see why not saying it is a big deal if the others are saying it.