I Pledge Allegiance To The Flag

GOPUSA ^ | November 17, 2008 | Richard Olivastro

[yoe]

Time to slam the door on those who want to tear this country down.

[WayneS]

"We don't want to isolate children every day in their own classroom, or make them feel they're different."

So instead you isolate children in an upstairs gymnasium every day and make THEM "feel" different?

Two words: Jack Ass! (or is that one word? Whatever, you get the point...)

[WayneS]

The 1943 Supreme Court dcision said children could opt OUT of reciting the Pledge. It did NOT allow school systems to require students to opt IN. There IS a difference.

[JenB987]

“We don’t want to isolate children every day in their own classroom, or make them feel they’re different.”

I’m sure there is a country somewhere in the middle east that would love to take your children and teach them a different pledge if they are so ashamed of ours.

Be gone!

[Old Sarge]

So, what happens in a few months when the Oath Of Loyalty to The Obama, the Messiah, The One (piss be unto him) is compulsory?

Will we be able to opt out?

[Candor7]

I live in Vermont. I am ashamed of these Woodbury Adults.

If I had my way, they would all be sent to defend the Freedoms they now enjoy. Then perhaps their narrow little selfish world view might change.

Lemmings, the lot of them.

[CindyDawg]

I teach my grandkids to say one nation under God and amen, regardless....

[yobid]

It's that pesky word republic. Now if they reworded to say ....and to the democracy.....problem solved.

Liberals HATE that we are a constitutional republic.

[JenB987]

I always wonder why we are commonly referred to as a democracy and not, properly, as a republic. However, after thinking about it, and growing up in a public school system, I should know why...

[Candor7]

Oath Of Loyalty to The Obama, the Messiah,:>>>>>>>

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United Socialist States of America, one Obamanation,with many ehnicitiies of equal standing in the eyes of Allah and the sacred caliphate, with Submission and Sharia Law for All.

[ravensandricks]

Nobody should ever be compelled to say something contrary to their own beliefs or wishes.

[mlocher]

Board Chair Dunlap told the parents "the format is up to teachers, not administrators or parents".

Yet another education administrator ducking his responsibility and refusing to make a decision.

[mlocher]

Nobody should ever be compelled to say something contrary to their own beliefs or wishes.

I agree. However, the tyranny of a few should not dictate the norm to the majority.

[JRandomFreeper]

Asking kindergarten through sixth graders who want to say the Pledge to leave their classrooms to do so is neither convenient nor traditional."

Not really. Just form 'em up at dawn, size 'em up, dress-right-dress, and march 'em to the flagpole, to present arms as the Colors are raised.

In the evening, do the same for Retreat as the Colors are lowered.

Even AF guys can handle that. Bunch of gradeschoolers shouldn't have a problem with it.

/johnny

[weegee]

And, it may - or should - be illegal, to require schoolchildren who wish to recite the Pledge to have to leave their classroom to do so.

[weegee]

Nobody should ever be compelled to say something contrary to their own beliefs or wishes.

Wait until the class takes up the subject of "Heather Has Two Mommies" and you will be sent extra work to submit to diversity training and "tolerance".

[Old Sarge]

Better one, paraphrased from the German Loyalty Oath of 1938:

"I swear I shall render unconditional obedience to Barack Hussein Obama, The Messiah, The One Leader and President of the United States and the American people, to observe the law, and to conscientiously fulfil my official duties, and that I shall at all times be ready to give my life for this oath."

[weegee]

Nobody should ever be compelled to say something contrary to their own beliefs or wishes.

Or perhaps your pupil takes issue with the myths and scaremongering in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.

[ravensandricks]

I agree with that in theory, but I fail to see the Constitutional principle that requires making children declare fealty to God and country.

[pnh102]

We should ostracize, mock, criticize, demean, and sanction and condone the bad treatment of those who would object to the Pledge of Allegiance. They should all go move to Cuba, Iran, North Korea or any number of countries where there is no US Flag for them to be offended by.

Jerks. Our country is better off without them.