Students at Calif. College ban Pledge of Allegiance
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Student leaders at a California college have touched off a furor by banning the Pledge of Allegiance at their meetings, saying they see no reason to publicly swear loyalty to God and the U.S. government.
The move by Orange Coast College student trustees, the latest clash over patriotism and religion in American schools, has infuriated some of their classmates — prompting one young woman to loudly recite the pledge in front of the board on Wednesday night in defiance of the rule.
“America is the one thing I’m passionate about and I can’t let them take that away from me,” 18-year-old political science major Christine Zoldos told Reuters.
Well, there is at least one more patriot left in this country…
“That (’under God’) part is sort of offensive to me,” student trustee Jason Bell, who proposed the ban, told Reuters. “I am an atheist and a socialist, and if you know your history, you know that ‘under God’ was inserted during the McCarthy era and was directly designed to destroy my ideology.”
That’s because your “ideology” is wrong and killed millions of people. Pampered little rich kids that have too much time on their hands and have never been out of the country nurture this kind of philosophy. Presented to them in a romantic light in the first place by some commie professor no doubt. Get the Hell out of my country then and go live in France.
Hundred bucks says most of the brainiacs don’t know the Pledge Of Allegiance.
November 10th, 2006 | #
I get tired of these tyrants we called Atheists. They accuse religion as being blind minded, but in thier pathetic way of thinking since they don’t believe in God, thier goal is to ruin it for others with the shield they call “Seperation of Church and State” When will this tyranny end? If God offends them, then STFU and don’t say anything. But oh wait in the mind of an atheist, disrupting religious events with protest is called freedom of speech but they put tape on the mouths of those who do not agree with them.
May 23rd, 2007 | #