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In reply to the discussion: SO HELP ME GOD = AZ Legislators Want to Require High School Graduates to Recite a Loyalty Oath [View all]white_wolf
(6,238 posts)20. Loyalty oath. What do you think the Pledge of Allegiance is?
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Sounds like an oath of fealty to me and I despise the fact that we have children recite it daily in classrooms.
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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