A plague of patriotism infected this statehouse and they decided to send a message to the voters. Politicians don't do things that piss off voters. They'll piss of the ACLU and other watchdog groups, but not voters. This law didn't get passed with subverting the constitution as a goal. It got passed with winning votes as a goal.
We can only rely on the separation of powers that gave us a judicial branch to get this overturned, as it has overturned all previous attempts. In *all* other cases ever brought to higher court.
No forced Pledge law has withstood examination. The insidious aspect of this one is the provision for kids to "opt out". The parents of the offending (sorry... I meant non-conforming/non-patriotic) child will be notified. That provision may well allow this to stand.
I thought Republicans liked keeping government out of peoples lives.