The kids at Boulder High are walking out of classes, rather than be subjected to the dreaded ‘G-word' found in the Pledge of Allegience.
They have a new Pledge now:
"I pledge allegiance to the flag and my constitutional rights with which it comes. And to the diversity, in which our nation stands, one nation, part of one planet, with liberty, freedom, choice and justice for all."
These non-aborted youngsters “pledge allegiance to … choice abortion?” What sublime irony.
All in all this Pledge is a supercilious little exercise in secular sanctimony from these young skulls full of mush. Our brave new schools must be made safe from—in the words of Boulder High's Student Worker Club President—the "almost religious oppression" of the traditional Pledge of Allegiance.
Their efforts, however, are inevitably and inescapably amateur. Several deficiencies immediately present themselves.
The first cardinal error occurs in the very first phrase—namely pledging allegiance to the flag. Uncool; very uncool. Pledge allegiance to your Che Guevara T-shirt … but the flag?, Ptooey! The American flag is to be burned, spat upon, trod underfoot, or hung upside down; in no event or circumstance is it to be shown honor or “allegiance.” The students have badly bungled their Pledge right off the bat.
Even worse is their next offense, pledging allegiance to the rights guaranteed in the Constitution. Ouch! Oh no; don't pledge to that. The true force of these rights are for progressive jurists to degrade, even while they presume to broaden. Maybe pledge allegiance to the edicts of a liberal Supreme Court jurist citing Zimbabwean law in place of the Constitution, but to the Constitution itself?—Never!
My proposed fix-it for their Pledge:
I pledge derision to the flag, and to the Constitution, at which I thumb my nose, but alliegance to the global community, and to international law, by which it stands. One world, with liberty, freedom, choice, justice, peace-love-joy, and the fuzzy warm glow of feel-good liberalism to all ... as decreed by a duly recognized World Court.
Really, though, the entire construct of their Pledge is altogether timid and limiting. Here is my suggestion for Boulder High’s dream Pledge:
I pledge allegiance not to the flag, or the base republic for which it stands, but to Mother Gaia—All hail!—on whose breasts all nations suck. And to the global community of nations (of which my own is least) with liberty from homophobes, freedom from religion, choice for dilation and curettage, and justice for all people groups deemed especially oppressed.
(h/t: MM)
UPDATE:
Snapshots of America's tomorrow. We're doomed.
OTHER REACTIONS—
[Leaving out "under God" is] never enough for liberals. They ensure that if one person is offended, we all suffer the consequences.
The ability of ACLU-types to be offended by any and all public references to Christian faith is legendary. Such will be their state of constant umbrage until or unless all references to the Christian God are scrubbed from the last vestige of public life. They'll stand for nothing less, so help them ... uh, so help them.