Posted on 03/22/2022 7:37:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Dane County supervisor wants to eliminate the Pledge of Allegiance from county board meetings, claiming the recitation is divisive.
Heidi Wegleitner has proposed removing the pledge as well as the word “prayer” from the board rules, which are currently undergoing a biannual redraft.
The board’s executive committee will consider Wegleitner’s proposal at a meeting Thursday, although newly elected supervisors would have the final say following the April 5 election.
“It just doesn’t feel like it’s appropriate for us to be doing, when in a pluralistic society we want to be inclusive and representative,” said Wegleitner. “At the end of the day, I think it’s divisive.”
Wegleitner said she looked into which area governmental bodies recite the pledge at the start of meetings and found an inconsistency to whether it was done, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
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eventually they’ll replace it with a pledge to something else.
They should vote to drop Heidi Wegleitner from meetings.
You are right, Tom.
Woke commie human debris...
Of course, it’s Madison. Kruschev landed there one time and after a few hours said, “Get me the he** out of here. Too many Commies.”
When leftists are not in power, things that they disagree with are “divisive”. When they get power, those same things become “traitorous”.
What’s with this business of being inclusive and all that? Why is the pledge of allegiance considered not to be inclusive? What are the criteria by which she makes this determination?
I’m an old guy. Old, tired, disillusioned. But I remember being younger. If younger men are anything like I was, the left is creating a pressure cooker with no relief valve. The constant onslaught of stupid, immoral things from the left, some of which is pushed just to prove that the left can push moronic ideas is infuriating.
The Dems are now radical left. The Reps are generally followers of the Dems. The media is a constant barrage of lying garbage. It often feels like common sense or morality has no home. That is the point where people break, and the result of that isn’t good.
It is Dane county.
I would move to continue on with the pledge and those who do not wish to recite it be be allowed to leave the board room during the pledge. After they leave, lock them out.
“It just doesn’t feel like it’s appropriate for us to be doing, when in a pluralistic society we want to be inclusive and representative,”
There, Mz. Wegleitner, I wrote it and mean it.
Written by a White Man, I suppose. Who knows?
Heidi, get the hell out of America, today.
I would innocently ask the board ‘Who you pledge your allegiance too?’. The answer might be very interesting!
yes, we agree it is divisive and now know where you stand.
They're definitely creating what might be called an "unstable situation." You could see this with the recent responses to the Anti Grooming Law in Florida.
The left responded with it's usual professions of outrage, but it died out pretty quickly. They weren't able to claim the rhetorical high ground in that case.
It's human nature to want a mile after you've been given an inch. Eventually you (meaning the Left) goes too far and becomes ridiculous, as the consequences of their choices become obvious. I think the same is happening with the girl's sports issues that are arising.
“A Dane County supervisor wants to eliminate the Pledge of Allegiance from county board meetings, claiming the recitation is divisive.”
He’s right. It separates the free people from the sheeple.
Funny enough, the Pledge was written by a full-on anti-capitalist “Christian” socialist. The words “Under God” we’re added June 14, 1954.
Yet, somehow I’m thinking would have no problem with a weekly affirmation of current SJW tenets: trans philosophy, racial injustice and equity, or minority affirmation.
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