@Kimmerrose: and you should RIGHTFULLY have that option!

I want a child to call my own and if it can't be from my body why not adopt.

@Kimmerrose: God WILL bless you Kimmer. I applaud the future woman who did the RIGHT thing and agve YOU that chance.

the pledge had god added later, it wasn't in the original written by bellamy.

It's still said across the country. If you don't believe it don't say that line like in schools. who are you to tell a child they cannot say the pledge because it might offend someone. They are simply saying it for their country, out of pride. Or saying a child can't carry a bible because it might offend someone. If you don't like it don't do it but don't tell others what they can and cannot do.

Freedom of speech and conscience means you don't have to talk loyalty pledges. In fact, there's not much that's less free than forced oaths.

You're aware that quakers and other peaceable christians don't take oaths to a country so they can put their god first? That's principle.

Variety teaches not harms. You can have multiple different types of people as long as they are smart enough to "play nice"