Pledge Of Allegiance, recitation in schools Options

[simx]

I just wanna know what everyone thinks about this. Recently, for my AP government class we had to do an essay about wether reciting the pledge of allegiance in public schools was constitutional or not. This is pretty much what i wrote:

If the school officials force all the students to recite the pledge, then It is unconstitutional... Violates the Lemon Test, standard 2 I believe...

If it's voluntary to say the pledge during school, then it it doesn't not violate the Establishment Clause (passes the lemon test)

Anyone else have an opinion about this?

[punkymoke]

God was the basis and the founding of our country, we should most definetly keep it in the schools.

[Spirited Away]

God was the basis and the founding of our country, we should most definetly keep it in the schools.

Wrong.

http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php...hl=pledge+under

*sigh* here is something else I said about the matter in another thread:

"There is no doubt in my mind that religious belief played a major part in the history and founding of America. But why did people come to the Americas to practice religion? Would you agree with me if I say that it was because they have more spiritual freedom?

Christianity was the smaller picture. Religious freedom was, and still is, the bigger picture. Christianity was simply the faith of those who wished for religious freedom in America. They believed in Christianity but they SOUGHT FREEDOM of RELIGIOUS PRACTICE.

So to respond to your comment, the historical impact is not Christianity, it is the finding of religious freedom. Thus, our First Amendment does NOT say that we have freedom to practice Christianity, it says we simply have religious freedom."


So you see, even though God inspired the search for freedom, those who sought freedom clearly believed in freedom of religious practice not just the freedom to serve God...