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Showing Original Post only (View all)SO HELP ME GOD = AZ Legislators Want to Require High School Graduates to Recite a Loyalty Oath [View all]
Certain AZ Legislators Want High Schoolers to Recite a Loyalty Oath Before Graduating
Posted by David Mendez on Wed, Jan 23, 2013
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2013/01/23/certain-az-legislators-want-high-schoolers-to-recite-a-loyalty-oath-before-graduating
... HB 2467, a proposed measure sponsored by seven legislators (six representatives and a senator) ....
... the bill's text:
... you're swearing that you're taking an oath freely when you're being coerced into taking the damn thing, again, in order to graduate. I'm pretty sure that makes the rest of the oath invalid, doesn't it? .....
... the bill's text:
BEGINNING IN THE 2013‑2014 SCHOOL YEAR, IN ADDITION TO FULFILLING THE COURSE OF STUDY AND ASSESSMENT REQUIREMENTS PRESCRIBED IN THIS CHAPTER, BEFORE A PUPIL IS ALLOWED TO GRADUATE FROM A PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL IN THIS STATE, THE PRINCIPAL OR HEAD TEACHER OF THE SCHOOL SHALL VERIFY IN WRITING THAT THE PUPIL HAS RECITED THE FOLLOWING OATH:
I, _________, DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR THAT I WILL SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC, THAT I WILL BEAR TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE TO THE SAME; THAT I TAKE THIS OBLIGATION FREELY, WITHOUT ANY MENTAL RESERVATION OR PURPOSE OF EVASION; AND THAT I WILL WELL AND FAITHFULLY DISCHARGE THESE DUTIES; SO HELP ME GOD.
... you're swearing that you're taking an oath freely when you're being coerced into taking the damn thing, again, in order to graduate. I'm pretty sure that makes the rest of the oath invalid, doesn't it? .....
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SO HELP ME GOD = AZ Legislators Want to Require High School Graduates to Recite a Loyalty Oath [View all]
Coyotl
Jan 2013
OP
The irony is that the clown proposing this is the one who has violated his oath
onenote
Jan 2013
#10
A reasonable parent will ensure that the person who conceived this will be fired.
Buzz Clik
Jan 2013
#11
They want students to take the oath that Senators and the Vice President take?
Jennicut
Jan 2013
#15
WTH?! Not in Pennsylvania, we're not! Have your teachers heard of the CONSTITUTION?!
WinkyDink
Jan 2013
#35
I fully get the "can't afford to lose my job" part. Man, how did we get such WHACKED legislators?
WinkyDink
Jan 2013
#69
The law has always allowed Quakers, Jehovah's Witnesses, and others whose religion forbids...
Hekate
Jan 2013
#24
Good point. What about prayer? Loyalty to the metaphysical master of the universe.
Coyotl
Jan 2013
#23
What the Pledge IS, is a NON-MANDATED (yes, check the Constitution) paragraph
WinkyDink
Jan 2013
#36
Oh, trust me; I know. I held my nose in my homerooms many a year. All I asked of
WinkyDink
Jan 2013
#71
Because the economy is so shitty there with right to work that people can't afford to live a middle
kimbutgar
Jan 2013
#29
He's has been seated in several chains in Glendale and the waitress took a long time to take their
kimbutgar
Jan 2013
#83
I feel ya--I went down there for a friend's wedding and I got that old squint eye too.
MADem
Jan 2013
#87
Good comment! "freely"??? I'm not sure most people would recognize their own slavery if it bit their
patrice
Jan 2013
#26
"I freed a thousand slaves, I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2013
#55
Ooh, magic words that will certainly guide all decisions they make for years to come.
tanyev
Jan 2013
#46
so the pledge of allegiance every moring, 5 days a week, 9 months a year isn't enough?
arely staircase
Jan 2013
#52
I see Republicans are once again tackling the real important issues facing the country.
Downtown Hound
Jan 2013
#66
Forcing them to say the Pledge of Allegiance every day for 12 years isn't enough now?
kestrel91316
Jan 2013
#76