Did/do you stand for the Pledge of Allegiance?

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

What it says on the tin.

I stood for and recited the pledge out of sheer habit and not to get yelled at, so yes, but if I were to relive my K12 days, I wouldn't. I think Christians should refrain from pledging their allegiance to any flag, regardless of what it's meant to stand for, and regardless of whether God's name is invoked in the pledge. I think courtroom oaths are more acceptable because you are pledging to tell the truth. But pledging one's allegiance to a piece of cloth seems anti-Christian to me, and just plain creepy to boot.

Thanks to West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943), it cannot be mandatory.

[Blue3]

Are you asking now or when in elementary school?

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Are you asking now or when in elementary school?

Did/do you stand for the Pledge of Allegiance?

[Aurelius]

Render unto Caesar...

[Blue3]

Are you asking now or when in elementary school?

Did/do you stand for the Pledge of Allegiance?

When I was in elementary school in the 90s, everyone did.
I work in an elementary school now, and I don't.

[The Mikado]

Yes, of course.

[Dr. MB]

It's a dumb tradition but if everyone is in the room standing I'm not gonna make a point of not

[Cokeland Saxton]

Pledging allegiance to a silly old flag just feels stupid

[Ferguson97]

Yes, up until around my senior year of high school when we all just kind of stopped doing it. Nobody really said anything or cared that no one was doing it, not even the teachers. Getting gun-ho about that kind of thing isn't really that prevalent in the Northeast.

[Santander]

If everyone else stood, I might stand. I would never utter those words, though. I don't worship pieces of cloth.

[Enduro]

Used to. Haven't in so long, and I don't know where I stand on the issue (get it?)

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

No one ever asked me to pledge allegiance to the Tricolore (normal).

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

stopped doing so in middle school, haven't done so on more than a handful of occasions since. It's weird in general to do it.

[Continential]

I do it because everyone else does it.

[ReallySuper]

of course not but i also went to a school full of commies where literally nobody else stood for it either (even most teachers didnt say it). in fact people who incidentally happened to be standing when it came on over the p.a. system literally rushed to their seats to avoid standing for it lmao

[Kleine Scheiße]

Yes, but because we were required to... I don't know how I would have behaved if it hadn't been required!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!! !!!!! !!!!!

[dead0man]

yes, and I'll take my hat off too.

[James Monroe]

When I was just a wee student who appeal to authority, I sang the Pledge every morning or afternoon of school. It was just as simple means to say I love the country of birth, that I'll support each decision no matter the cost.


Now, the Pledge of Allegiance is absolute nationalistic propaganda brainwashing many children into tricking the children. The whole "under God" thing doesn't bother me as much as the whole contextualizing behind the cheerleading nationalistic tendencies that should not be said out loud by students everyday of class.

[the artist formerly known as catmusic]

I stood for it, but I stopped saying the words pretty early on and hated the experience of it all. Felt creepy and cult-y. I only would stand now if I felt it would cause too much of a fuss not to, but I'm still not saying it.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I actually wasn't made to stand for the pledge until I worked as a teacher; for some reason my schools growing up were among the few that didn't do it. When I did finally have to make a decision about it, I stood but didn't say the words out loud. Sometimes I mouthed them, sometimes I mumbled the Hail Mary or the first sentence of the Hōjōki or a passage from the Gettysburg Address (a patriotic standby in which I actually believe) under my breath.

[HillGoose]

yes obviously, im not some kind of damn red

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Yes (Theist).  It's your right not to, but I think much better of people if and when they do.  I also make the same pose (and take off any hat or hood I'm wearing) for the national anthem.  (The kneelers can take a hike IMO.)

[LBJer]

Yes.  I'm an atheist (I'm also Jewish, by the way) and when I say it I just leave the word "God" out.  The rest of the pledge makes just as much sense without it. 

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Never encountered the Pledge of Allegiance until I was an adult working as a substitute teacher, but I stood for it then as an atheist and I would still stand for it now.

[Mr. Smith]

Yes, for professional reasons I have to.