Recall Election Set to Replace Trustee Who Won't Stand For Pledge of Allegiance

[Nbadan]

DENVER -- A recall election is now set for an Estes Park, Colo., trustee who refuses to stand up and recite the Pledge of Allegiance during the Town Board meetings.
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I have not been standing for the Pledge of Allegiance due to a conflict I have with the wording of the pledge, specifically the words 'under God,'" Councilman David Habecker said.

Habecker said it's a violation of church and state to include the words in the pledge and for that reason, he won't stand.

The board began reciting the pledge before meetings earlier this year at the suggestion of Trustee Lori Jeffrey-Clark. She suggested it as a way to show respect for the country during wartime.

Local6

Actually, it wasn't "One nation, under God until Ike had the words "Under God" added in the early 50s, to combat "Godless Communism"--and to kiss up to Congressional demagogues like Joe McCarthy.

Does that mean his desire to recite the Pledge as it was before, um, 1953, is somehow "Un-American"?

[SpursWoman]

Yes, I can see how those 2 words completely negate the meaning of the rest of the Pledge. God forbid he just skip them.

[Winehole23]

http://houston.cbslocal.com/2014/05/...of-allegiance/
http://reason.com/blog/2014/05/09/te...ent-for-declin

[boutons_deux]

"indivisible, with liberty and justice for all"

America is deeply, probably iredeemably DIVIDED, as the VRWC strategized. Disunited, America falls to a wealthy UNITED and its ignorant, obstructive minority.

with liberty and justice for all .... OF THOSE WHO HAVE LOTSA MONEY