OT (was Re: But it still doesn't explain the joke)

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Peter Hansen wrote:
> Cameron Laird wrote:
> 
>> In the litigious US, court cases for everything are unceasing.  What
>> I suspect you have in mind is a Supreme Court hearing for a father
>> who, if I understand correctly, claims his religious freedom as an 
>> atheist unconstitutionally impaired because of a requirement imposed
>> by the public school his daughter attends that she recite The Pledge
>> <URL: http://slate.msn.com/id/2097737/ >.
>>
>> More background appears at <URL: http://slate.msn.com/id/2067499/ >.
> 
> 
> Without following the links to verify, I'll just note (since I
> was reading this on the subway while heading for the PyCon venue)
> that the recitation is apparently not even mandatory (for the girl)
> but the father was objecting that she would even have to stand
> there and listen to it.  (I don't know what the "rules" say, but
> the school representative said the girl didn't even have to say
> the pledge.)
> 
> -Peter

The father is put in an awkward position of having to explain how he is 
not a traitor to his country of birth.

Edison, "Religion is bunk".