Not exact matches
They refuse to perform military service or
salute the
flag, actions which have brought them into direct conflict
with governments around the world.
You can leave this country at anytime, just do not change our way of life this country fought for... if this way of thinking continues in the United States of America you will be
saluting a different
flag... these people who think this way can go live in any other foreign country or go to an island and start your own country,
with your own beliefs, sick of the ACLU running this country
Christians have voted to put their God's name on everyones money, add «Under God» to the
flag salute, force schools to teach intelligent design
with absolutely no scientific basis along side the sciences, voted to write their moral laws on the fronts of public courthouses and tax funded buildings, voted to ban certain people from living together, being intimate or raising children because their orientation didn't fit
with their bible beliefs.
While pledging allegiance to the
flag (
with a more subdued physical
salute) continues to this day to be routine in America's public schools, for the seventy years since Barnette it has been unlawful to compel any student to participate, and no student who elects not to participate is obliged to give any reason for that choice.
More significantly, it is impossible to credit the notion that a minority objecting to the
flag salute on the basis of a generalized intellectual disagreement
with the propositions in the pledge, as opposed to a religious objection, would have won.
It might have seemed of small account that in their processions the boys of Catholic Action walked in threes, in imitation of the Fascist militia, and not in fours, as they had done up to 1922; that they carried their
flags with the staffs resting on their stomachs, again in imitation of the Fascists, and not on their shoulders, as had been the custom before the March on Rome; that even the most obscure parish magazines and journals of religious associations showed the year of the regime along - side that of the Christian era; and that Catholics habitually observed all the outward forms of Fascism, beginning
with the Roman
salute and the conversational use of voi, abandoning, because the Duce so willed it, the age - old use of the third person as the polite form of address.
What does
saluting a
flag have to do
with Christianity?
We all enjoy the same glorious freedoms and we all
salute the same great American
flag and whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look at the same night sky, and dream the same dreams, and they are infused
with the breath by the same almighty creator (CONTRAST, RULE OF THREE, EXAGGERATION AND METAPHOR).
We offer this Soldier
Saluting Flag Memorial Day coloring page
with several different sentences in addition to our Memorial Day holiday collection of coloring page sentence readers.
Nothing to do
with land and oceans at all — raising the
flag to see if anyone
salutes — and certainly nothing like your simplistic and misguided algebra.