Everitt Middle School guidance counselor Margo Lucero decided to make a wee change to the Pledge of Allegiance on Wednesday. Here it is:
One nation, under "your belief system"....
Lucero said she didn't intend to be offensive but rather wanted to mark the sixth anniversary of the Columbine High School slayings by evoking a sense of tolerance.
"Given the anniversary of Columbine, it was a spur-of-the- moment choice that I made, intended to acknowledge differences that lie in our society," Lucero said. "It's not a reflection of the district, and it was not my intention to offend anyone, rather to include (everyone)."
These liberals and their politically correct nonsense. The pledge of allegience means, and forever will: "one nation under MY belief system."
How about "One nation, under the hegemony of corporate interests, with liberty to shop at the mall."
"...if it's OK for biology teachers to decline to teach evolution and for pharmacists to refuse to dispense certain medications, why shouldn't teachers have the right to modify the pledge for reasons of personal conscience?"
Hey, why just pharmacists? How about if we protect everyone who refuses to do part of their job for reasons of conscience? Would that be cool or what!
SUV owner: Oil change, please.
Jiffy-lube worker: Sorry, but for reasons of conscience, I refuse to help maintain your pollution-spewing, gas-guzzling behemoth.
SUV Owner: WTF?! Look, kid, I need to get this done on my lunch hour. Get moving, OK?
J-L worker: You can't make me; I have a right to not help you rape the environment. Take your monstermobile to Wallyworld; they're more in line with your way of thinking, ya scumbag!
The POA is not an oath.
That is correct. It is a pledge institutions make children, whose attendance is compulsory, say in order to indoctrinate them with toadyism.
Stink bomb pharmacies that refuse to fill legal perscriptions. Harass pharmicists who refuse to fill legal perscriptions. Discriminate against religious nuts and force them to live with the Amish.
