Sunny Days in Heaven
Spiritual/Political/Philosophical Blog on the Nature of Truth and Falsehood and Heaven


Tuesday, November 04, 2003  

It makes you mad

My wife teaches second grade. Her school serves immigrant families primarily. She is one of the few teachers who says the Pledge of Allegiance everyday; and tries to teach about American heroes like George Washington.

She says none of her colleagues will teach anything about the American Revolution and our Founders and heroes like Nathan Hale, or figures like Daniel Boone and Davey Crockett. (They spend most time on the Civil War and Lincoln.)

One of her students is a girl who is an Arab. She calls herself Palestinian and claims to come from the country of Palestine. This girl used to say the Pledge everyday along with all the other students until today. Today, she said her father told her not to do it anymore.

No, not because she is a Jehovah's Witness, an atheist, or conscientious objector. She can no longer say it because her father doesn't want her to pledge allegiance to the USA. These are the kinds of people we are letting into this nation. We taking vipers to our very bosom.

posted by Mark Butterworth | 9:08 PM |

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