Comments on: Atheists Tell Florida Schools: Follow the Law on Pledge of Allegiance Issue

By: Willard Bolinger

Willard Bolinger — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 03:27:00 +0000

I got my mother in 1958 in Lacey, Iowa tp reluctantly help me to compose a letter to the ACLU to challenge the requirement that in school we had to say the Pledge of Allegiance with the words just added in 1956 of “under God”. I put the letter in the mail box and caught the bus to school. Mom claimed that the ACLU never responded. About a dozens years later mom told me that she took the letter from the mail box afraid of being ostracized in the community if any law suit resulted from it. I was a junior in the Lacey School.

By: Matt Purvis

Matt Purvis — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 18:12:00 +0000

In reply to Perry Thaxton. WRONG!!!!! Public schools should not be LEADING any sort of religious practices or endorsing any faith or god. Why do kids need to be pledging to a flag at all for that matter? Is this nationalistic indoctrination really necessary?

By: boyntonstu

boyntonstu — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 23:50:00 +0000

One Nation under Canada, and over Mexico… (Thank you Robyn Williams!)

By: Chuck Siegfried

Chuck Siegfried — Mon, 30 May 2016 21:07:00 +0000

In reply to Richard Hutchings. Well said, Mr. Hutchings. The addition of those two words should never have been allowed in1954. They should be removed now.

By: Richard Hutchings

Richard Hutchings — Sat, 21 May 2016 19:41:00 +0000

In reply to Perry Thaxton.

True, the pledges’ original meaning had nothing to do with religion and was just about pledging allegiance to the United States. But, that changed in 1954 when a preacher/chaplain and the Knights of Columbus got the U.S. Congress and Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower to pass a bill that had people pledge their allegiance to not just the United States but, the Christian God as well. Thereby making it about religion. I think this quote from the U.S. President at the time Dwight D. Eisenhower should quell any resistance to the idea that the addition wasn’t about religion

“From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily
proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural school house,
the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty…. In this
way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America’s heritage and future; in this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country’s most powerful resource, in peace or in war.”

that about sums that up!

By: Perry Thaxton

Perry Thaxton — Sat, 21 May 2016 12:04:00 +0000

The pledge of allegiance isn’t about religion. It is about the United States of America .
Parents, please rethink not having your kids say the pledge. If anything, you can explain to them that you would rather not have them say “under god”.
I don’t believe in God, but I don’t care if the pledge has the word God in it. There are more important things in this country to worry about.