[thechat] More Pledge news

[Plunkett, Matt]

Excellent phrasing!  No, I'm not being sarcastic...

I think Rudy's blunt language illustrates nicely how you can characterize
the problems with the pledge without being too PC.  I don't really have time
to fully respond to that earlier post that argued that PC-ness was somehow
responsible for the degradation of our language...but I don't think you can
dismiss the judges's ruling out of hand as being some "PC bullshit".  Being
precise about language and sensitive to the fact that our gov't is NOT
supposed to be a Christian institution is important.  I doubt everyone would
be happy if we changed the pledge to include "one nation under the Goddess"
or something to acknowledge the fact that there are some Wiccans in the US.

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	rudy [SMTP:rudy937 at rogers.com]
	Sent:	Friday, June 28, 2002 11:46 AM
	To:	thechat
	Subject:	[thechat] More Pledge news

	Oh, and did I mention that for the first fifty years of its use, the
Pledge
	was recited with the right arm extended straight up and slightly
forward,
	palm facing out? Sound familiar? Yeah, it got changed in the 40's,
when we
	realized that Hitler was also fond of that particular gesture.

	Finally, of course, the particular phrase which is causing the
controversy -
	"under God" - was not part of the pledge until 1954. It was
installed then
	by Eisenhower in a effort to aid Senator McCarthy and his thugs in
rooting
	out the godless communists, anarchists, and queers among us.

	http://williamted.blogspot.com/

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