The pledge of allegiance is a complete waste of time and we shouldn’t even bother standing to recite it – say a few board members from the New York town of New Paltz.
Bernie voters, I’m guessing?
From TheBlaze:
The upstate New York town of New Paltz voted last week against reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at its board meetings after one of its members called the Pledge a “total waste of time.”
The debate began when board member Amy Cohen, a local business owner and former mayoral candidate, introduced a motion during a Monday meeting that the board recite the Pledge of Allegiance during its bi-monthly meetings as a show of patriotism and respect, according to the New York Post.
“This is a government building, we have a flag here,” Cohen said during the meeting, the New York Post reported. “Personally, coming in off the street to do our governance … I feel that it helps me kind of transition.”
But not all of the board members viewed the Pledge in the same light that Cohen did. After objections were raised, Cohen’s motion to recite the Pledge of Allegiance was voted down 4-3.
“To me, it’s a total waste of time,” Vice Chair Lyle Nolan said during the board meeting. “It’s a pressure type of thing, because if you don’t stand, it looks like you’re against it and I don’t think we need that. We’re all adults. We’re all here to do a job.”
Another board member, Lagusta Yearwood, said that the Pledge was a “funny little thing.”
“I love this country, I don’t see any reason to say a pledge to it,” Yearwood said before declaring that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance “goes against the principles this country was founded on,” the Post reported.
It seems certain people are forgetting that men and women are serving overseas right now fighting for this country to make sure we can sleep soundly at night.
The gall of some to consider the pledge divisive rather than unifying is almost intolerable.
Hey, you can have your views and be as un-American as you please, but just keep in mind all our service members throughout history and how you’re dishonoring their memories.