the pledge of allegiance

ok, so mm wants to weigh in on the pledge debate.................the pledge strikes me as so very nazi/stalinist russian.......i have no idea how we came to see a pledge as agreeable to a free society......alone one that requires the utterance of 'under god'......i say this as a christian who fully accepts that her god may not be the only god, and therefore we cannot go around making school children act like there is just one...............i am saddened that a child custody case is at the bottom of the court case..........another pitiful event in the story of the american family..........the amendment to outlaw gay marriage did not make it out of committee here in the bluegrass......which surprises me.........yet, lexington is apparently one of the top 10 locations for gay couples to relocate....according to my partner's partner..............i was under the impression that this nation was built on religious tolerance................not necessarily on christian principles..............ah well..................