Thoughts, Rants and Subliminal Suggestions

Is this even legal? Apparently so....

This post at Reuters shocked me. The students banned the Pledge of Allegiance because they "see no reason to publicly swear loyalty to God and the U.S. government." Now, I understand if you don't want to say the Pledge because you're pissed off at the actions our government has been taking in these past couple years, hell, I'm not too pleased with it. But it's not going to stop me from saying the Pledge because I am an American and I do feel some loyalty. You can be loyal to your country without liking your government. I mean, hello people, we just had elections. Voting is in place so that the government is what you make it to be. And if you didn't vote...don't complain because you didn't even make an effort to change things.

Now, there was another issue that students took with the pledge, another reason why they banned it. It was the phrase, "Under God".
"That ('under God') part is sort of offensive to me," student trustee Jason Bell, who proposed the ban, told Reuters. "I am an atheist and a socialist, and if you know your history, you know that 'under God' was inserted during the McCarthy era and was directly designed to destroy my ideology."
Now this idiot should also know that you don't HAVE TO SAY IT. You can skip saying it. The phrase "under God" doesn't even have to apply to the Christian god. Say "under goddess" or "under [your deity of choice here]". I don't care. I don't care if you don't say it. Just because it's there doesn't require it to be said. This frustrates me because the phrase is symbolic. You are pledging yourself in the presence of a higher power, whatever that power may be. Hell, if you're a satanist, go ahead, pledge under Satan if it means you're loyal to the US. I could care less. But don't go and ban the whole fucking pledge because of that one phrase. If you're so against the whole thing, don't say it! No one will probably even notice!

People and their stupid bloody closemindedness. I think I've ranted enough. Back to work...

posted by Amy M @ 10:34 AM