Smasharoo wrote:
A **** salute has a specific connotation to you and I
The connotation to me is that we changed how we saluted the flag from a reasonable sort of arm pointing towards the object we're saluting to this hand and heart bullsh*t. That and photos of kids from the 30s saluting the flag like this one:
http://lh3.ggpht.com/Main.Ben/Rv6iKlF22ZI/AAAAAAAAAvY/hhdcK_oHdkA/s400/american-school-children-bellamy-salute.jpg
Make me laugh.
The connotation to me is that we changed how we saluted the flag from a reasonable sort of arm pointing towards the object we're saluting to this hand and heart bullsh*t. That and photos of kids from the 30s saluting the flag like this one:
http://lh3.ggpht.com/Main.Ben/Rv6iKlF22ZI/AAAAAAAAAvY/hhdcK_oHdkA/s400/american-school-children-bellamy-salute.jpg
Make me laugh.
Yeah. I almost mentioned the same point myself. It's perception though, isn't it? We somewhat arbitrarily decide one thing is religious in nature and thus must be banned from public school, while some other thing isn't. Then we wonder why people raise issues like this.