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06-28-2011, 05:41 PM
Compromise on Pledge of Allegiance in Oregon Town Has Some Seeing Red
The RED city council in Eugene, Ore., has voted down a proposal to say the Pledge of Allegiance before every meeting. (For more on Eugene and the City Council story, click here.) Do you have a problem with our public officials refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance?
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Mayor Kitty Piercy called the Pledge of Allegiance divisive. “If there’s one thing the flag stands for,” Piercy says, “it’s that people don’t have to be compelled to say the Pledge of Allegiance or anything else.”
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Councilman George Brown voted against the compromise, saying the Pledge of Allegiance had no place at City Hall. “People can say it in their front yard or backyard,” Brown says. “It really doesn’t help move the city business forward. It does not unite us.”
Another pledge opponent, Councilwoman Betty Taylor compared saying the Pledge of Allegiance to reading from "The Communist Manifesto."
The Pledge of Allegiance was written by Francis Bellamy, a Baptist minister, in 1892. It quickly became part of the American fabric. School children said it each day with their hand placed over their hearts. The original pledge did not have the words "under God."
Opinion
Do You Have a Problem With Public Officials Who Refuse to Recite the Pledge of Allegiance?
Ninety one percent of your fellow Americans sure do !
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/06/28/do-have-problem-with-public-officials-who-refuse-to-recite-pledge-allegiance/
The RED city council in Eugene, Ore., has voted down a proposal to say the Pledge of Allegiance before every meeting. (For more on Eugene and the City Council story, click here.) Do you have a problem with our public officials refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance?
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Mayor Kitty Piercy called the Pledge of Allegiance divisive. “If there’s one thing the flag stands for,” Piercy says, “it’s that people don’t have to be compelled to say the Pledge of Allegiance or anything else.”
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Councilman George Brown voted against the compromise, saying the Pledge of Allegiance had no place at City Hall. “People can say it in their front yard or backyard,” Brown says. “It really doesn’t help move the city business forward. It does not unite us.”
Another pledge opponent, Councilwoman Betty Taylor compared saying the Pledge of Allegiance to reading from "The Communist Manifesto."
The Pledge of Allegiance was written by Francis Bellamy, a Baptist minister, in 1892. It quickly became part of the American fabric. School children said it each day with their hand placed over their hearts. The original pledge did not have the words "under God."
Opinion
Do You Have a Problem With Public Officials Who Refuse to Recite the Pledge of Allegiance?
Ninety one percent of your fellow Americans sure do !
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/06/28/do-have-problem-with-public-officials-who-refuse-to-recite-pledge-allegiance/