Posted on 06/26/2002 3:17:41 PM PDT by kattracks
It's really easy. You go to every country radio station in your area, hand them the recording and I guarantee you 100% that they will play it.
Darn right it was...why do you think that special session was called just a short time after the ruling came in? When I tried to call D.C., I could not get through. I finally called the Senators offices here in Tampa and expressed my views, and I was able to get hold of Adam Putnam in Washington. The young man on the other end of the phone said that he had never seen anything like this in his life. The phones were ringing off the hooks, in every office. Same thing in Tampa with Graham and Nelson...when I finally got through, the lady in Bill Nelson's office told me that I was over the 2,000th caller. And guess what? NONE OF THEM WERE HAPPY.
That's correct...we have an established Federal Religion.!
Dewey, learning from Rousseau's arrogance, developed Secular Humanism as a Religion (in his own words) for our schools. This banishment of reference to God is a step in that establishment.
Our founders wanted public education for young children first, and foremost, to instil general precepts of Jeudeo-Christian heritage which they considered education's first job. Avoiding establishment of a particular church denomination as a Federal Church, accepting the State established churches, they still felt that the primary reason to even have basic public education was to teach Virtues that were self evident to all that fought in the Revolution.
Without an amendment, this can be cast out as Established Secular Humanism when the Federal Government should ban to allow the "free exercise" of religious thought in general where it was meant ot flourish by the founders.
Neither is the Pledge of Allegiance.
And let me tell you, I'm a teacher, and I WILL say the Pledge at school. It's MY flag too, and I can pledge allegiance to it if I want to.
The children are not required to say it anyway, because of the Jehovah Witness case.
The time has come to say goodnight,
My how time does fly.
We've had a laugh, perhaps a tear,
and now we hear goodbye.
I really hate to say goodnight,
for times like these are few.
I wish you love and happiness,
In everthing you do.
The time has come to say goodnight,
I hope I've made a friend.
And so we'll say "May God bless you,"
[Note: offensive and constitutionally suspect words have been deleted
Until we meet again
We miss you, Red. It's probably just as well for you that you left us when you did. Your good heart could not bear to know where and how much farther we have fallen.
GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD
So there!
BTW, superstition has nothing to do with it. But you have nothing to worry about, mlo. If you want nothing to do with God, He'll grant you your heart's desire.
To you the pledge is a distraction. To me it isn't.
What evidence do you have that proves, getting "riled and angry" over the pledge excludes getting "riled and angry" over issues?
I know of no correlation.
How's that gonna show 'em? Radio stations are privately owned.
Playing Red Skelton's reading of the Pledge on private radio stations is a bad thing because radio stations are private? What do you mean?
So you are saying that teachers do not have the right to free excersize of religion.
Bump!
Thank you for the exemplary stance on this matter President Bush.
Although oddly enough, many of Buchanan's Dixiecrat supporters have been running about on this forum bluntly stating they hate the "socialist" U.S., and of course, despise the idea of pledging allegance to it:
Back when I was a rebellious teenager, I often thought...they really die so that I would be forced to recite a loyalty oath to my government each morning at my government school?
posted on 6/26/02 2:10 PM Central
I have wondered recently where the "indivisible" part came from, because the founding fathers clearly intended for the Union to be "divisible," since they had quite decisively "divided" themselves from King George. My bet is that schizophrenic tyrant Lincoln put it in there.
posted on 6/26/02 2:17 PM Central
NO BIG DEAL. What's the controversy??
posted on 6/26/02 3:07 PM Central
The "one nation UNDER GOD" portion was added later to the pledge. I can't see the need for outrage here. This is simply courts affirming the separation of church and state.
posted on 6/26/02 1:34 PM Central by CecilRhodesGhost
The pledge is socialist bs anyway. Hopefully this will be the end of it. For those who are shocked about the socialist origins, look it up for yourself. Use google - it will take you ten minutes, tops.
posted on 6/26/02 1:29 PM Central
Hard to believe that a little "ditty" written by a Socialist, which didn't mention "God" for it's first 62 years, is causing so much consternation. Under the First Amendment, anyone is free to exercise practically any religious belief they choose; they may not use the power of Government to impose it on anyone else. What's so complicated about the concept??
posted on 6/27/02 2:20 AM Central
Personally, I can't figure out why these Alec Baldwin clones don't put their money where there mouth is. If America sucks SO bad (and apprantly has since 1860, they claim), then they should exercise their right to "secede" and LEAVE the country. Our RINOs and the Baldwins can have fun in France where religion is DOA.
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