This is infuriating and I hope it wakes up the older generation. Even if I was gay the American flag would still be more important. They don't understand what the flag stands for because schools stopped teaching this. If they only knew if 🇺🇸 falls by another country they will be the first to lose their rights. Try that in the Middle East and see what happens.
Their reasoning was "you don't owe allegiance to your country! That's Nazi/commie like! We aren't North Korea!"
They never seemed to understand that you aren't pledging subservience, you are pledging allegiance, a proclamation of being an American under the defense of and in defense of the flag that encompasses us and who we are.
This is interesting. I didn't know it was changed over the years.
In 1954, in response to the Communist threat of the times, President Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add the words "under God," creating the 31-word pledge we say today. Bellamy's daughter objected to this alteration. Today it reads:
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
This is infuriating and I hope it wakes up the older generation. Even if I was gay the American flag would still be more important. They don't understand what the flag stands for because schools stopped teaching this. If they only knew if 🇺🇸 falls by another country they will be the first to lose their rights. Try that in the Middle East and see what happens.
Why did they stop saying the Pledge of Allegiance at schools?
Their reasoning was "you don't owe allegiance to your country! That's Nazi/commie like! We aren't North Korea!"
They never seemed to understand that you aren't pledging subservience, you are pledging allegiance, a proclamation of being an American under the defense of and in defense of the flag that encompasses us and who we are.
This is interesting. I didn't know it was changed over the years.
In 1954, in response to the Communist threat of the times, President Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add the words "under God," creating the 31-word pledge we say today. Bellamy's daughter objected to this alteration. Today it reads:
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
Plegde Of Allegiance