[Behind Liberal Lines]

Two letters in today's paper from Ithacites on this topic. Of course they support the Court's ruling and attack the Pledge:

The first one, from a local--get this--folk singer displays the typical elitist attitude so common amongst the local leftists, takes a gratuitous shot at the Bush Administration and even implies the Pledge is racist:

What is so hard to understand about separation of church and state? **** [The pledge] reflects .... jingoism against non-Christians --what since 9/11 George W. Bush and John Ashcroft have sometimes directly accused as "evil-doers." Most of the civil and foreign policy changes they advocate in reaction to the threat of "evil" (non-American, non-Christian) are ill-conceived, biased and possibly racist.

I hope her songs are better written than her letter, but I doubt it.

And this one from a retired English professor, advocates against saying the pledge at all:

I have been an active member of Saint John's Episcopal church since our arrival in Ithaca more than 50 years ago. I have not said the Pledge of Allegiance since the addition of the words "under God."

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[NativeNewYorker]

Their philosophical outlooks are less interesting than the fact that they are motivated to broadcast their notions in print.

The desire to scream LOOK AT ME, innate for toddlers, never fades in some people.