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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (16142)	6/30/2002 1:28:46 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

I would have died of embarrassment at refusing to cite the Pledge. Some children are shy and sensitive. Imagine being, for example a fat, unpopular, scapegoated child already (I wasn't any of those, but was still shy, with some exceptions), and being told you had to participate in a public prayer with your schoolmates or leave the room and not join in the Pledge of Allegiance to your country. Some of the children will think you don't like America. Others will think you are an atheist, which they will have heard is a very bad thing. I agree that these children should suffer so that Christians can have their public school prayer attached to the pledge, since the Knights of Columbus did, after all, go to all the trouble of winning the campaign to insert it. Well, okay, what I agree with is that it was an issue best left alone.