Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Pledge of Allegiance Unconstitutional in CA; Banned in WI
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional.
Now in the wake of the September 11th attack on America, a University of Michigan survey found 90% of those questioned felt proud to be an American. The survey must have missed the many advocates of bilingualism and multiculturalism who make decisions regarding what all children are taught in our public schools
A second-grade teacher in Madison Wisconsin told the Associated Press that the Pledge of Allegiance was "a comfort" to her students "even if children don't understand all the words."
Neither patriotism nor comfort deterred the Madison School Board from voting on October 8th last year to ban the Pledge of Allegiance from all public schools and to offer only an instrumental rendition of the Star Spangled Banner in classrooms.
Public outrage forced another meeting on October 15. The tenor of that meeting may be gathered from the reporting of Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive. He quotes one citizen " who described the city as 'The People's Republic of Madison,'" and called the board members a bunch of 'arrogant, elitist, heavy-handed, radical leftovers of the Vietnam era, who in your great zeal to protect the minority have stifled the expression of the majority.'"
The Oregon education department even issued a memo reminding school superintendents that under state law, "school buses may not display flags." Lehigh University ordered American flags removed from its buses as of September 14th "so non-American students would not feel uncomfortable." Public complaints thankfully forced Lehigh to withdraw its order.
Who would have thought it would be illegal to be patriotic during wartime?
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