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Legislator in Pennsylvania Refuses to Say the Pledge of Allegiance (Because "God" is in it)
Independent Sentinel ^ | 10/05/2012 | Sara Noble

Posted on 10/07/2012 7:11:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

It was just a routine House State Government Committee meeting and Chairman Daryl Metcalfe asked Pennsylvania state representative, Babette Josephs, to lead the patriotic pledge. She refused because it has the word “God” in it.

This is what the dingbat said:

“Based on my First Amendment rights and based on the fact that I really think it’s a prayer. I don’t pray in public.” [Inquisitor]

More from the Inquisitor:

Josephs noted after the meeting that Congress chose to insert “under God” into the pledge when she was about 14 years old. The Democratic politician maintains that the additional wording turned the patriotic statement of allegiance into a prayer, WPXI notes.

Babette Josephs had this to say about the incident:

“How many years ago was 1954? I have not said the Pledge of Allegiance since and I will not say it into the future unless they take those words out and make it less of a prayer. Especially if you’re in elective office and you’re invoking the name of God all the time; to me it’s the height of hypocrisy. I will not do it.”

Here’s the video:

CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO

abc27 WHTM

Maybe she has a little dementia. She claimed Daryl Metcalfe was angry but he doesn’t sound angry to me. The voters are very wise to have seen through her pettiness – she lost her primary.

It is her right to not say the pledge but it is hardly a prayer. We’re not praying when we say it, we’re pledging allegiance to our country.

I think she would have had more of a case if she led the Pledge and just left out “under God.”

Secularists want to change our history. This is not simply about wanting to separate church and state to the extreme. Secularists want to banish God from everything and prevent believers from mentioning God. The Founders never intended us to ban God and never mention his name.

Secularists want the United States to become an atheistic society.

 



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: god; nonobabette; pennsylvania; pledge; pledgeofallegiance
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1 posted on 10/07/2012 7:11:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

sorry old hag but God is part of what this country was founded on..maybe you should choose another country..its not your country if you hate it.


2 posted on 10/07/2012 7:13:11 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: SeekAndFind

She probably to keep her story in line, need to refuse all currency handed to her that says IN GOD WE TRUST. If she is a TRUE vegetarian, she won’t eat animal crackers either.


3 posted on 10/07/2012 7:14:05 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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4 posted on 10/07/2012 7:14:35 PM PDT by narses
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To: SeekAndFind

Just don’t say the words “under God” and stop being a drama queen!


5 posted on 10/07/2012 7:14:49 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: SeekAndFind

Ignore God as you wish, Babette.

But, you do so at your own peril, of a certainty.


6 posted on 10/07/2012 7:15:01 PM PDT by One Name (Ultimately, the TRUTH is a razor's edge and no man can sit astride it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I agree that she should have recited the pledge without the words “under God”. As an atheist, she should not confirm that this nation is “under God”. But, as an officeholder in this great country, she is obliged to pledge her allegiance to it.


7 posted on 10/07/2012 7:16:15 PM PDT by winner3000
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To: SeekAndFind

I agree that she should have recited the pledge without the words “under God”. As an atheist, she should not confirm that this nation is “under God”. But, as an officeholder in this great country, she is obliged to pledge her allegiance to it.


8 posted on 10/07/2012 7:16:31 PM PDT by winner3000
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To: dalebert

She, like obama, lacks the moral aptitude to govern or advise anyone on anything.

Another of the prince of fools genre.


9 posted on 10/07/2012 7:17:49 PM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: fatima; xsmommy; Nowhere Man; South Hawthorne; brityank; Physicist; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; GOPJ; ...

PA Ping!

If you want on/off the PA Ping List, please freepmail me. Thanks!


10 posted on 10/07/2012 7:18:09 PM PDT by randita
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To: SeekAndFind

I will bet if you find a picture of her in the 60s it will answer the nagging question.


11 posted on 10/07/2012 7:25:26 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Even my husband....who’s fairly liberal and is a green card holder (legal resident status).....stands (with his hat off) and faces the flag during the national anthem.


12 posted on 10/07/2012 7:27:36 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah. Both the Flag and the Pledge are different then they were when I was born.

Like her, I took the option of getting older.
Getting stupider was an option I chose not to exercise.


13 posted on 10/07/2012 7:28:10 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1356 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ehhhhhh.....she’s stupid. She probably forgot the words.


14 posted on 10/07/2012 7:29:01 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: SeekAndFind

So it was OK to change history when Under God was added in the 50s?


15 posted on 10/07/2012 7:29:22 PM PDT by arbitrary.squid
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To: SeekAndFind

Josephs lost her primary in April and only has a few session days left in her 28-year career as a lawmaker.

So she’s OUT,and God is still IN!!


16 posted on 10/07/2012 7:31:13 PM PDT by massmike (The choice is clear in November: Romney or Caligula!)
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To: blueunicorn6

You can just see her standing there thinking to herself, “Two all-beef patties spec.....no, that’s not it.”


17 posted on 10/07/2012 7:31:29 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: rovenstinez
>b>She probably to keep her story in line, need to refuse all currency handed to her that says IN GOD WE TRUST. If she is a TRUE vegetarian, she won’t eat animal crackers either.

LOL. Animal crackers is to vegetarian as the Pledge of Allegiance is to prayer.
Yet I can feel her pain. For one to be born so stupid, ugly, and obnoxious as Babette it is not difficult to understand her existential resentments.

18 posted on 10/07/2012 7:35:41 PM PDT by Amagi (Chief Justice John Roberts is a traitorous weasel.)
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To: SeekAndFind

She has every right to say she will not take the pledge, for whatever reason.
I have a right to ridicule her for her choice.


19 posted on 10/07/2012 7:37:33 PM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The article notes that Congress added “under God” in 1954. That is correct but it’s not the whole story. It started with the pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC, Dr. George Docherty, a native of Scotland.

Dr. Docherty thought this phrase needed to be added to the Pledge of Allegiance and in one of his sermons he said so, and among those in the congregation that day (not by accident) was President Dwight Eisenhower, a member of the Church. The President took the idea to key Congressmen and it was enacted into law.


20 posted on 10/07/2012 7:38:12 PM PDT by OldPossum
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