As the song says: “God blessed Texas”.
Wow. Being about the only native Texan in the city I live in, Frisco, the transplants from Cali and Jersey will find this disturbing. They already comment on the fact that we say it at all every morning after the Pledge of Allegiance. This will be an added bonus for me. I think its fantastic.
My eldest son was substituting in the high school French class and they said the pledge in French......he made them say it over again in English....
one does not argue with a recently commissioned Marine
Trust me...it HURT BAD for the Houston Chronicle to publish this story.
The Chron is the most liberal, anti-God, bird cage lining paper in the state of Texas.
Impressive!
“one nation under God” was not added to the national pledge until the 50s.
I’m not opposed to it being there, just pointing out some historical accurracy.
Barry Lynn would prefer this to be our national anthem:
Godless Philosophy
To the tune of “God Bless America”
Godless philosophy, pointless for me,
None to cause us, but Cosmos–
All that is, was, and ever shall be.
From the big bang, to the slime soup,
To the heat death, dark and old:
Godless philosophy, it leaves me cold;
Godless philosophy, it leaves me cold.
While I don’t care that y’all put God in your Pledge, I DO care that, as reported, students are required “by law” to say it....unless they get a note from home.
Something about “Congress shall make no law....” comes to mind.
(asbestos suit on)
I’m not ashamed to own my Lord,
Or to defend His cause;
Maintain the honor of His Word,
The glory of His cross.
Jesus, my God! I know His Name,
His Name is all my trust;
Nor will He put my soul to shame,
Nor let my hope be lost.
Firm as His throne His promise stands,
And He can well secure
What I’ve committed to His hands
Till the decisive hour.
Then will He own my worthless name
Before His Father’s face,
And in the new Jerusalem
Appoint my soul a place.
It’s about time Texas did something.
YAY TEXAS :)
I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.[1]
“”But adding that phrase has drawn criticism from some who say it’s unneccesary and potentially harmful to children who don’t share the same religious beliefs. “Most Texans do not need to say this new version of the pledge in order to be either patriotic or religious,” said Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. “”
Whenever there is news that is positive about religon, you will always see this clown Barry Lynn. Anton Levay was not near as evil as this guy.
One last thing that you will all find of interest: this was approved in the Texas House of Representatives on a 124-12 vote and in the Texas Senate on a 29-0 vote. Not even competitive.
GOD BLESS TEXAS!
The liberal myth that including "under God" in the pledge is a violation of the establishment clause is in complete disagreement with almost every ruling by almost any court for the first one hundred eighty years of our republic. The liberal revision of the first amendment in practice today is not the correct view of the first amendmnent any more than the hyper-expanded view of the fourteenth amendment is the view that those lawmakers had in mind when they put it into law.
The hyper-expanded view of the fourteenth amendment is simply an underhanded tool for judicial activists on the court to be used by the far left to deconstruct America and shove their top-down, centralized, coercive secular humanistic vision into its place.
Potentially harmful? It wasn’t potentially harmful to the kids I grew up with, and probably not to anyone any of us knows. This is such PC bullcrap. I, for one, am tired of the victimhood we’re seeing all over the place now. We NEED Texans all over the US, with BIG hats! Love em.
Nothing irks me more than government forcing me or my children to worship God. I’ve got a damn good mind to just tell my daughter who is in public school that she can go stand outside the room if she wants to while the rest of the class goes through this politically driven kneejerk BS.
I paid for 8 years of a Catholic school education for my daughter. I’ll be damned if the state of Texas is going to tell her to worship the God the state of Texas selected for her to worship.
Interesting that in the old days, when we actually had a Republic, there were less of these forced shows of patriotism.