"One Nation, under God....." - Mona Nomura from Bookmarklet

...with liberty and justice for all. HAH! -

;) - Mona Nomura

Getting out my 10 foot clown poll for this one... :) - Johnny Worthington

Religion has a place in school. It's called the Theology class room. Where the christian creation can be taught along with the other dozens of creationist doctrine. How they going to like that? - Geoff Schultz

I thought that's the reason private schools existed in the first place - Rodfather

Why not teach religion as part of literature? It's not half-bad fiction. - Patrick Beard from twhirl

Because as literature, it's not really that good? - ·[▪_▪]·

I teach philosophy in public school and religion is very welcome in that mix. But dang, they are looking to develop an underground by poking around in the private schools. I wonder if home schooling there will take off more (as it has in the US) in reaction to the bans. They may actually be making things more dangerous if so. - Boo

Boo: I agree, regarding underground. The option to learn should exist, but not mandated. Like Geoff said: "Theology Class" - Mona Nomura

Yes, teaching the world's creation stories in a theology class makes perfect sense. "Teaching religious doctrine as if it were true" doesn't make sense. Which doctrine? Which truth? - Ayşe E.

Illegal? Really? - Mona Nomura

I don't get it, Mona. - Pete Delucchi

My question, Pete? - Mona Nomura

Mona, the god part is a recent addition to the pledge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... you'll find the founding fathers weren't all that hot on religion. - Duncan Riley

The statement, Mona. - Pete Delucchi

as to the question: I can see some merit in it, although it's difficult to reconcile in terms of a free society. We are far better off equipping our children with critical reasoning than blind theology. If they then decide to follow, so be it. - Duncan Riley

I can't believe that people don't think science is THE religion in our paradigm... :P - Kenn Ejima

Duncan: Yes, I looked it up during ongoing "Ban the Pledge of Allegiance" controversies :) I just wrote it to get people's attention. Pete: ? - Mona Nomura

I support the motivation for this law, only object to telling privately funded schools what they can and can't teach. I blogged about this (http://frethink.com/?p=79) and have gotten nearly 20 replies (on Disqus), mostly supportive of the law. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

i agree with Daniel Dennett on this one. a solution is not less religion, but more religion. mandatory teaching of world religions in schools is a good start. they are already doing it in Modesto, CA - http://bit.ly/2ywsfs - ~C4Chaos

Jack: WOW. @~C4Chaos: Interesting, thank you for the link. - Mona Nomura

I say let the private schools teach whatever they want. - Tad

I agree, Tad. As long as they're privately funded, they can teach wizardry and alchemy as fact. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

I'm not sure I like my site's comments being rerouted through Disqus. I wish there was an option to have them appear on the site while comments could only be made through Disqus. If I disable Disqus, do the comments already made disappear? Or can I export them back to my blog? (Sorry for the off-topic) - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Wizards aren't real? - Shannon Jiménez

Jack: I don't have a self hosted WordPress blog, and don't want to give you an inadequate answer. I suggest asking on the DISQUS forums. The dev team is really active there :) http://disqus.disqus.com/ - Mona Nomura

Mona, just to be clear, I'm not in favor of making this illegal. It's a big world w/ lots of ideas. Best to expose the kids and teach them how to think critically about them. - Ayşe E.

+987923749823739874 For Critical Thinking!!!!!!!!!! - Mona Nomura