[Dale Dough]

Disrespect has nothing to do with it either. Disrespect would be actively rubbing my opinion in people's faces. I simply chose not to participate. I wouldn't even post this as a 'confession' if an earlier post didn't remind me about it. (And it wasn't technically detention, the room was set up during the ceremony because the school didn't want to force it upon the students. But even if it was, I doubt I'd sue)

I also walked out of a church once, when they did a prayer session for a member of the community that had been paralyzed in an accident, and thus must have been punished by God. As I left, I heard the words 'we understand that God wouldn't bring this upon XXX without a reason'. My 'hostmom' at the time gave me hell for that.

And MatthewRyan, I guess you were also one of those people that wasted electricity keeping their lights on at night, to show the terrorists that the American spirit wouldn't crumble.


Edited to add: I did not say 'I'm not going' unprovoked. The teacher told us to go, and I said I wasn't going, so she told me to go to the detention center instead. She was the one keeping an eye on us, ao I had to tell her. Also, and I didn't make this clear enough in the original post: I was aware in advance that this alternative existed; it's not like I stood there with an 'f that you guys are not making me do that' attitude.