Colorado Students Walk Out During Pledge, Recite Own Version

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298336,00.html

Thursday, September 27, 2007

BOULDER, Colo. — About 50 Boulder High School students walked out of class Thursday to protest the daily reading of the Pledge of Allegiance and recited their own version, omitting "one nation, under God."

The students say the phrase violates the constitutional separation of church and state.

They also say the daily reading of the pledge over the school public address system at the start of the second class takes away from education time and is ignored or mocked by some students.

A state law passed in 2004 requires schools to offer the opportunity to recite the pledge each day but does not require students to participate.

The protesting students, members of the Student Worker Club, want administrators to hold the pledge reading in the auditorium during each of the school's two lunch periods for any students who want to participate.

If he meant it to say "under God", he would have put it in there.

"Out of the mouths of babes......."

. . . I really don't care whether it includes "one nation, under God" or not.

Just think, if little Georgie hadn't had had it drilled into him we might not be in this pickle we're in. . . . well, perhaps that's going a bit too far, but I do think the US first, best, and always attitude the pledge promotes makes it a lot harder for the impressionable minds we're requiring to recite it without thinking to be open to embracing other people in other lands.

To the extent I have allegiances to people, it is to all people everywhere - not the select, isolated group of people who call the United States of America home.

but in case you missed it, here's how Georgie pledges
each morning when he turns on Fox:

I beg the media not to rag
On the United States of America.
And to the interests for which it stands,
One station, Ailes as God, unbelievable,
With bigotry and malice for all.

It is interesting that we haven't really won a war since we added "under God."

One nation was there before, as I recall.