Of course, I respect your right to voice it. I never said otherwise.
I also agree that children don't have the same rights as adults, of course. They are still in the process of learning the right from the wrong. But it seems to me in a practice where every child is expected to say the pledge to the flag, if a parent protests and says that he doesn't want his child to say it (as it seems he has the right to do, according to Bakerstreet), the child is placed in a situation of exclusion where he will feel put aside, simply because his parent doesn't agree with something.
When I was a kid, we had catholic class. But the parent at the beginning of the year, had the right to write a note saying that he didn't want his child to attend that class. In such cases, the child in question spent the class time in the library - basically as a reject. I didn't believe in God, actually, I wasn't even sure what God was - something like Santa I figured. Anyway, I begged my parents NOT to write that note, because I didn't was to be rejected because of it, although it was the most boring class on earth. Anyway, the bottom line is, although I and my parents didn't believe in something, I still had to opt in because the situation kind of made it hard to reject it. A few years later, things changed, instead of going to the library, kids who didn't want catholic class, had another class instead, called "morals" - which was basically the exact same class except with the words "God", "Jesus" and all of those things purged out. The result was much better, and there ended being more kids in those classes than in religion class.
