Banning the 'Pledge of Allegence'

[Major Tom]

In Inmars district of muslim voters, they banned the pledge of allegience! I say "Send her back"!

[Vern Humphrey]

Nice try, but they won't take her.

[togor]

St. Louis Park, MN, is in the MN 5th district, but home to a bunch of very liberal people of the Jewish faith. I lived there for a year, in a condo next to the JCC. Actually a nice wooded area on an undeveloped rail corridor, just north of the lakes in Minneapolis. They have stated their reasons for not automatically saying the pledge, and allow that there are times when it will be said. I don't agree with it, but to call it a ban and blame Omar is to take the most uninformed, propagandized view possible, if that is what people are into doing.

[Roadkingtrax]

You mean, the Pledge of Allegiance written by a Socialist in the 1880s? The irony.

Look up the author and minister, Francis Bellamy:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy

"Bellamy "viewed his Pledge as an 'inoculation' that would protect immigrants and native-born but insufficiently patriotic Americans from the 'virus' of radicalism and subversion."

[m1ashooter]

Sometimes I believe people have to stand for something. I stand by my marriage vows which I took 38 years ago, I stand by my oath of Commissioning as an Officer in the USAF which I took 39 years ago, I try to follow the Ten Commandments, the Boy Scout Oath and the Boy Scout Law. I support the Pledge of Allegiance to be spoken and taught in our schools. I didn't just wake up and decide that I was going to follow and try to live with the oaths and vows I have taken. I was taught by my parents, teachers and other men in my community. We as a society are doomed if we will not stand for something. So if someone wants to not say the Pledge of Allegiance or stand for the National Anthem that's their right.

[Roadkingtrax]

We said it every morning when I was in grammar school.

I'd say the message is still a good one.

[Vern Humphrey]

Sometimes I believe people have to stand for something. I stand by my marriage vows which I took 38 years ago, I stand by my oath of Commissioning as an Officer in the USAF which I took 39 years ago, I try to follow the Ten Commandments, the Boy Scout Oath and the Boy Scout Law. I support the Pledge of Allegiance to be spoken and taught in our schools. I didn't just wake up and decide that I was going to follow and try to live with the oaths and vows I have taken. I was taught by my parents, teachers and other men in my community. We as a society are doomed if we will not stand for something. So if someone wants to not say the Pledge of Allegiance or stand for the National Anthem that's their right.

But I don't have to admire them, or pay for tickets to see them play a game.

[m1ashooter]

But I don't have to admire them, or pay for tickets to see them play a game.

Damn straight.