A country should have citizens who WANT to stand, not citizens who HAVE to stand. When you stand because you want to that is TRUE patriotism. If your citizens do not stand, then something obviously needs to be fixed so they want to stand.
TheOrientalist
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Soul Searching is our series about how the most secular generation in history is changing the face of religion.
I used to refuse to recite the pledge in class back in grade school (I didn’t have any particular cause except kicking against the pricks, so to speak), and I also wouldn’t participate in the stupid school sing-a-longs that happened every week. The school “punished” me on more than one occasion by having a teacher…
Patriotism is fragile but McCarthyism is strong.
It’s basically how White people were screaming their heads off about Obama going to a madrassa. The Pledge of Allegiance says love the country and don’t be a dick, but what the definition of how to love is rather twisted for the radicals.
Who knew patriotism was so fragile?
When you think about it, it’s a pretty weak-ass pledge. You’d think that doing it once or twice back in grade school would be enough for it would stick, not that your allegiance would immediately dissipate to the point where you have to re-pledge at every dopey public event.
Hmmm...if that’s how your brain ends up after a lifetime of not drinking, I may need to rethink this whole sobriety thing.
Not out of nowhere. He was already famous for being kicked off the bench by refusing a higher courts order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from his courthouse. Then he was reinstalled to another state court (state supreme court, possibly?) and was kicked off THAT for refusing to enforce gay marriage and saying…
Was this the dude who got the satan/baphomet statue put up?
I JUST READ THAT.
Apparently, another Senator (an R even) said a few other things as well.
Jesus Christ this needs to be posted every day on every article about this.
Dunno what he’s worried about... the black pants should hide that he shat himself. No need to bring the flag into it.
Classic hypocrisy
What an ignorant asshole.
listen to me very carefully - you are so embarrassing.
Man. I hope we make it to 2020 to have that problem. That’d be swell.
It could be argued that my switching to blood orange Italian soda for my vodka mixer could cost Trump in 2020, given the improbability of his winning despite getting several million fewer votes in the first place.