So Bob-

Someone's right to an education and to play basketball should depend on their willingness to salute in the way you see fit? Sounds totalitarian to me. It basicall yboils down to punishing someone for an unpolualr belief. Thank God America has a Constitution that protects everyone's right. I believe it was Justice Holmes who said that we don't need the First Amendment to protect popular speech -- no one ever tries to punish popular speech. The reason we need it is to protect people whose beliefs are incredibly unpopular. Jefferson knew what he was doing.