Tag: Pledge of Allegiance

‘Public Education Must Die’ (2018)

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They call it “education.”

Please don’t think your kids are safe in school just because you live in a red state. Far-Left Wacko teachers’ unions control public education in all 50 states.

A few years ago the principal of a charter school in Georgia decided to get rid of the Pledge of Allegiance and replace it with a newfangled pledge to some mythical “global community.”

Public Education Must Die

Happily, the public found out about it and got the scheme sunk before it could do any harm.

It’s almost impossible to fire them, and now they’re clobbering your kids over the head with Hypocritical Race Theory. And they’re always doing everything they can to keep parents from finding out what their kids are being taught. A couple weeks ago a teachers’ union in Massachusetts sued a parent for asking what was in her five-year-old’s curriculum.

Well, there’s one promise I feel safe in making:

Kill public education, and Far Left Crazy dies.

Colorado Mayor Bans Pledge of Allegiance

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Silverton, Colorado, population 550, has made the national nooze this week! Surely for the first time in its history.

The mayor of the small town decided, all on his own with no input from the town council (they call them “trustees”), to “suspend”–meaning “ban”–the saying of the Pledge of Allegiance at public meetings (https://nypost.com/2021/06/22/pledge-of-allegiance-canceled-in-colorado-town-by-mayor-citing-threats/).

Where does he think he is? And who does he think he is?

A group of citizens, including one of the trustees, stood up and recited the pledge regardless. The mayor said he’d have them kicked out of the meeting if they did it again. ‘Cause they have a “one-strike policy.” Sounds like a substitute for thinking.

Why did the mayor ban the pledge?

Well, he said it was “divisive,” and cited various unnamed and undescribed “threats” inspired by the recitation of the pledge. That sounds like tommyrot to me. Does that sound like tommyrot to you?

Why should America be the host of parasites that hate her and want to bring her down? And say so! What other country does that? Some of these leftids ought to shuffle off to Pakistan and try their tricks out there.

Hating America should automatically bar you from governing as much as a square inch of America.

‘New Atheist Demand: “Don’t Say the Pledge”‘ (2014)

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This post featured a conversation (mostly civil) between an atheist and me.

New Atheist Demand: ‘Don’t Say the Pledge’

It still fascinates me that atheists deny using the apparatus of the state to wage an inquisition against Christians. Forcing a Christian to take part in a homosexual parody of marriage, turning the First Amendment on its head to prohibit the free exercise of religion, hauling Christians up in front of “human rights” tribunals–gee! just like in communist countries!–that’s not a purposeful campaign of harassment?

Coulda fooled me!

School Restores ‘Under God’ to Pledge

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The other day I reported that the school next door to me had deleted the words “under God”–as in “one nation under God”–from the Pledge of Allegiance. In fact, I’d first noticed that back in April.

This morning, “under God” was back.

What gives? Had people called up the school board to complain? Or did the fact that school board elections are just around the corner have anything to do with it?

I’ll be keeping my ears peeled, to try to discern whether there’s any pattern in this.  I could always contact the board myself, and ask for an explanation, but for the time being I prefer to wait and see.

The School Next Door Deletes ‘Under God’ from Pledge

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Right next door to me there is a public grade school with a loud and intrusive PA system. We get to listen to all the school’s announcements, all day long.

Each morning they put a child on the microphone to lead the others in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Today, and not for the first time, the words “under God” were missing: just “one nation, indivisible,” etc.

I don’t think we need to look much farther for a reason why our country is in the state it’s in.

There was no court order, no legislation, no demand by the townsfolk to strike “under God” from the pledge. “School officials,” whoever they might be, took it upon themselves to do so. Because, you know, children must be protected from the God who created them and sent His only begotten Son to earth to win for them eternal life.

I guess God isn’t “inclusive.”

So now the kiddies learn to say “one nation”… under what? Under nothing? Nobody? That would leave the nation–the state–as the supreme authority. We have no king but Caesar.

Is it too late to warn the educators, “Be careful what you wish for”? Maybe if you’ve got a thing for talking to fire hydrants, or preaching to chunks of cement, you might want to discuss this matter with school officials.

I say again: Christian parents who wish to raise Christian children don’t send their children to a public school.