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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/23/AR2010022303889.html

I urge all freethinkers to remember that you can't be coerced or forced into saying the Pledge of Allegiance. Whatever your objections to this ritual, you can't be punished for exercising your right of refusal.

Whether your objections are over the insertion of religion, or your religion disallows it, or you simply don't feel like reciting it, you are still an American first, and your rights trump anyone's stubborn refusal to allow you to exercise those rights.