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From: aeq@pucc-h (Sargent)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Flag Waver Speaks Out
Message-ID: <402@pucc-h>
Date: Thu, 15-Dec-83 08:59:05 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 15 08:59:05 1983
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Curious.  In net.flame, I agree with Rich Rosen; in net.religion we are on
opposite sides.

I agree that one should never get caught up in symbols.  Even when I was in
high school (maybe earlier; I'm not sure at this distance of years) I
vehemently disagreed with the wording of the Pledge of Allegiance:

          I pledge allegiance to the flag
          of the United States of America
          and to the republic for witches' dance....

(Seriously, my mother tells me I said that when I was very small.)

But anyway, my point is:  If you say you're pledging allegiance to the
republic, why in the world should you pledge allegiance to an inanimate piece
of cloth that happens to be its symbol?  How the author of the Pledge could
have missed his own gross illogic I'll never understand.

-- Jeff Sargent/...pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq