Francis Bellamy (1855 - 1931), a Baptist minister, wrote the original Pledge in August 1892. He was a Christian Socialist. In his Pledge, he is expressing the ideas of his first cousin, Edward Bellamy, author of the American socialist utopian novels, Looking Backward (1888) and Equality (1897).
42 posted on 02/02/2011 12:14:57 PM PST by randomhero97
("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)