Posted on 09/06/2014 10:27:11 PM PDT by Borges
Lillian Gobitas Klose, whose refusal, on religious grounds, to recite the Pledge of Allegiance as a seventh grader in a Pennsylvania public school in 1935 ignited national indignation, as well as a roiling legal fight that led to an expansion of First Amendment rights, died on Aug. 22 at her home in Fayetteville, Ga. She was 90.
Her daughter, Judith Klose, confirmed the death.
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The commies must have loved her...
When I was a kid in Texas, we were still saying the pledge, and still saying the Lord’s prayer, our Independent school district was among the top in the nation at the time.
Well, I guess she now knows whether she was right or wrong way back then.
Per article she was a Jehovah’s Witness and following her preachers injunction against idolatry.
In other words following her religious conscience .
See my post above.
She was a brave little girl. It sounds like God rewarded her devotion.
You have it backward. The pledge is Commie/Yankee propaganda. It is an oath of loyalty to the US Federal government.
But “under God” wasn’t added until 1954.
It’s not an issue of salvation, and sincere Christians (and political theorists) can sincerely disagree in their practice. To me, for it to be worth a hoot, it has to be voluntary.
I won’t pass judgment on what someone does when they’re 12 years old. I would say that half of my decisions at that age were horrible. RIP.
The Pledge of Allegiance denies a fundamental right upheld in the Declaration of Independence—the right to secede.
It’s pathetic that so much “conservative” energy has been wasted on the Pledge. And on another nonsensical issue: prayer in government schools. That make as much sense as “prayer in brothels.”
“To me, for it to be worth a hoot, it has to be voluntary.”
As an oath, yes, but in schools it was educational, recited by children too young to be held to an oath.
Ummm hate to tell you but Jehovah’s Witness do not believe in Jesus as part of the trinity and several other heretical points. I don’t think that God will bless her at all
The declaration gives no rights to anyone.... You are confused
You’re right of course.... the rights come from God and are merely recognized in the Declaration and Constitution.
The declaration gives no rights to anyone.... You are confusedThe Pledge of Allegiance denies a fundamental right upheld in the Declaration of Independence—the right to secede.It’s pathetic that so much “conservative” energy has been wasted on the Pledge.
15 posted on September 7, 2014 at 2:57:16 AM EDT by Arthur McGowan
I’m not sure that “upheld” and “given” are synonyms . . .And on another nonsensical issue: prayer in government schools. That make as much sense as “prayer in brothels.”Christian prayer was a civilizing influence in government schools - as it would be in any setting.Though, to your actual point, I favor parental choice in, even control of, education.
As to the pledge, anyone interested in that issue should attend a naturalization ceremony. I did, a decade or so ago - and it was pretty pathetic. Speakers extolling "diversity."
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