MN: Three suspended for not standing for pledge

Posted on May 12, 2008

We read:

“Three small-town eighth-graders in Minnesota were suspended by their principal for not standing Thursday morning for the Pledge of Allegiance, violating a district policy that the principal now says may soon be reworded to protect free speech rights. … The head of the Minnesota American Civil Liberties Union said that the school’s actions against the students are unconstitutional, and his office informed the district of that today in a strongly worded letter.”

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The ACLU is clearly right on this one. The case above does not seem to involve religion but various groups (e.g. Quakers) have religious objections to the pledge so the first amendment clearly protects their freedom of religion. I am rather surprised that the pledge has lasted so long, given its plain violation of the first amendment in such cases. A voluntary pledge is OK of course.

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One Response to “MN: Three suspended for not standing for pledge”

regularron on May 12th, 2008 10:20 am

John Ray, thank you for coming to the aid of the First Admendment. I, being a devout Catholic, see the pledge nothing more than a assault on God’s first law. “Thou shalt not have other Gods before me”.

The Pledge to me, is nothing more than a pray to the State. And the only Allegiance I have is to God.

I may love, and who knows be called to defend IT’S SHORES (not someone else’s border) but I will never pledge Allegiance to it.

One other thing, please look into who wrote the “Pledge”. It was a Socialist.