What is this, 1954? Totally unnecessary, totally unhelpful to any legitimate problem, and totally pandering to silly religious banter.
and then this has the exact OPPOSITE effect that someone who claims to be a believer would want....minimizing God to a mere word that's just repeated over and over again with no meaning. hollowing the word of meaning.
that makes perfect sense and i would agree. I'm indifferent either way but its hardly something to freak out about like its the loss of all right...regardless of insulting the great state of texas
Who the hell pledges allegiance to the state flag? I don't remember doing this in school. Does anyone else?
I find it offensive that they'd have my children (if only they could get their clutches on them, which they won't) pledge allegiance to a flag. They'd have permission slips to skip from me regardless of the content.
i dont remember doing it to the state...heck i dont remember pledging allegiance to the US flag after 4th grade
Never in my entire Texas public school academic career from kindergarten through college did we ever pledge allegiance to the Texas Flag. It would have been r****ded, even though the pledge was only two lines long. And yeah, pledging to the American flag after elementary school? Ha ha. I think at my high school they remembered to do the pledge over the PA maybe once a month and maybe half of the students sort of mumbled along. I didn't even stand up, but then I was pretty much an ******* trouble maker by then. Praying to a flag is r****ded. Though I'm a loyal American and Texan I feel no need to publicly state my allegiances. Pledging anything to a flag is for the boy scouts. I'll pledge my allegiance to America with my taxes and to God in church, no flaggetry necessary.
...and where is the compromise/trade off here? call me crazy but i don't see it. i have to give up all of my opinions about religion in politics because i am in the minority. i guess since i was born and raised in texas that's a fair compromise.
I work at a school and I cannot stand the Texas pledge. I mean if you say the pledge to the United States, doesnt it include Texas.
I never understood the whole pledge thing. I once refused to stand during the pledge when I was a kid just to be a rebel, and I got yelled at for it. But nothing more. Seems to me to be free means you don't have to make any kind of pledge to anyone, kind of takes away from it if it's compulsary. And the whole moment of silence thing - what if your prayers need to be spoken out loud? And why does all of this have to happen at school? Why can't people just do the pledge before they leave to school, or when they get home???? Why during school hours? That's what I don't get.
I would hardly have expected deliberately contrarian behaviour from a poster such as yourself. Hardly.
Debbie Riddle R-Tomball On public education "Where did this idea come from that everybody deserves free education, free medical care, free whatever? ... It comes from Moscow, from Russia. It comes straight out of the pit of hell. And it's cleverly disguised as having a tender heart. It's not a tender heart. It's ripping the heart out of this country."
Face the facts folks -- if our kids don't say "one state under gawd" we will find ourselves in a pit of hell.
