Compromise on Pledge of Allegiance in Oregon Town Has Some Seeing Red
29th June 2011
Clark says all he wanted to do was unite the council and show his more conservative constituents that in this city where diversity is celebrated, their more traditional values also are important.
Sounds like it didn’t work. Sounds like the truth came out.
“It’s a little ironic to see those who have championed the idea of tolerance be less tolerant on this question,” Clark Said. Mayor Kitty Piercy called the Pledge of Allegiance divisive. “If there’s one thing the flag stands for,” Piercy says, “it’s that people don’t have to be compelled to say the Pledge of Allegiance or anything else.”
Oh, sure, that’s the ONE THING that the Pledge of Allegiance is all about.
Councilman George Brown voted against the compromise, saying the Pledge of Allegiance had no place at City Hall. “People can say it in their front yard or backyard,” Brown says. “It really doesn’t help move the city business forward. It does not unite us.”
Well, no; not on the Left Coast it doesn’t. ‘Gentlemen, please! You can’t fight in the War Room!’
Another pledge opponent, Councilwoman Betty Taylor compared saying the Pledge of Allegiance to reading from “The Communist Manifesto.”
Oh, yeah, those are totally equivalent. (Well, maybe for her they are….)
Resident Anita Sullivan summed up a common viewpoint: “So you say I pledge allegiance and right there I don’t care for that language,” Sullivan says. “It sort of means loyalty to your country; well, I feel loyalty to the entire world.”
And there you have the Left Coast in a nutshell.
June 29th, 2011 at 12:59
Ms. Taylor would probably have no problem reading from “The Communist Manifesto” before council meetings, it’s that whole loyalty to the country that allows her the freedom to whine that she has trouble with …
June 30th, 2011 at 04:55
The people of America, especially its important leaders in academia and politics, wish neither to be prosperous or free. They will get their wish.