Notes on 10 year olds not Pledging Allegiance

Foreword
I’ve been following this story about the 10 year old boy who has been doing something flatly patriotic.
He has decided, presumably of his own accord, to cease reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in the mornings at school, until homosexuals have equal rights in the United States. And I quote,

“I’ve always tried to analyze things because [...]

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I’ve been covering it from the seedy backroom of the unsung Internet political forum, the true Pantheon of Modern Rome. Any story worth getting is worth getting from the front line, and for months I’ve been witnessing the very [...]