11th March 2003, 10:12 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Dark Jaguar
Yeah, sorry LL :D.
while I personally see no problem with it in there (I see a larger problem with having a pledge at all, because it's useless), I myself am hardly going to put any effort into defending it in it's current state.
I don't know if I'd even call the closest thing we have to the pledge an equivilent, but you rarely hear it, the vast majority of citizens in Canada couldn't tell you any of it, but it is required to recite it once if you imigrate here and then want citizenship if you become a public official.
I remember reading when the origional ruling against the pledge was made that reciting the pledge as often as it is recited is actually a fairly recen phenomena