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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]0rganism
(23,856 posts)2. "I TAKE THIS OBLIGATION FREELY"
How is it possible to put a statement like this into a mandatory oath?
Apparently, "freely" means something very different to some people.
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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