Thread: Compromise on Pledge of Allegiance in Oregon Town

Compromise on Pledge of Allegiance in Oregon Town Has Some Seeing Red

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/28/co ... eeing-red/


An Oregon town's City Council voted down a proposal to say the Pledge of Allegiance before every council meeting, but later passed a compromise that seemed to make no one happy.

The approved measure allows the pledge to be recited at just four Eugene City Council meetings a year, those closest to the Fourth of July, Veterans Day, Memorial Day and Flag Day.

It was supposed to be simple, but Councilman Mike Clark soon found out when you’re dealing with God and country, nothing in Eugene is easy.


Clark says all he wanted to do was unite the council and show his more conservative constituents that in this city where diversity is celebrated, their more traditional values also are important.

“It’s a little ironic to see those who have championed the idea of tolerance be less tolerant on this question,â€

saying the Pledge of Allegiance had no place at City Hall. Have we really sunk that low??????????????

[color=red]“It sort of means loyalty to your country; well, I feel loyalty to the entire world.â€

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Mayor Kitty Piercy called the Pledge of Allegiance divisive. “If there’s one thing the flag stands for,â€

The only ones who would have a problem in pledging allegiance to the United States are those who do not have allegiance to this country.

I'm reasonably certain there is no other country on the face of this planet where this would be an issue. Perhaps it's time to HALT all immigration to this country. We seem to have let into too many who have no allegiance to this country and also have no problems imposing their non-allegiance on others.

Since when does a radical minority dictate what the majority want?

[quote]Resident Anita Sullivan summed up a common viewpoint: “So you say I pledge allegiance and right there I don’t care for that language,â€