Waiting

Well, I'm waiting for the legions of enraged individuals to start crawling out of the wood work to protest the decision by the California Judge <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/09/15/build/nation/46-pledge-ruling_v.inc">ruling the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional</a>. I thought I would throw my two cents worth into this situation before it's drowned out by the cries of the masses.<br />n<br />nThe original pledge written by Francis Bellamy in 1892 makes no mention of God at all.<br />n<br />n<blockquote> 'I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.'</blockquote><br />n<br />nThe reference to God in the pledge was added in 1954 after a campaign by the Knights of Columbus to add it. <br />n<br />nSo, my felling on this issue is that maybe at this point in history we need to remove the reference to God and go back to the pledge as written. Would this be so horrible? Remember, change is not always a bad thing and in this situation I am just talking about change back to the original as written. Not such a bad thing if you ask me.<br />n<br />n<b>Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. Saul Alinsky</b>