TUPELO, MS — A Mississippi judge entered a courtroom and asked everyone to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. An attorney with a reputation for fighting free speech battles stayed silent as everyone else recited the patriotic oath. The lawyer was jailed.
Attorney Danny Lampley spent about five hours in jail Wednesday before Judge Talmadge Littlejohn set him free so that the lawyer could work on another case.
"I don't have to say it because I'm an American," Lampley told the newspaper.
The Supreme Court ruled nearly 70 years ago that schoolchildren couldn't be forced to say the pledge. That decision is widely interpreted to mean no one could be required to recite the pledge.
Bellamy was a Baptist minister and a Christian socialist. He also owned a flag company. The original pledge is as follows:
'I pledge allegiance to my Flag and (to) the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.'
In 1954, Congress after a campaign by the Knights of Columbus, the words, 'under God,' were added to the Pledge.
This is the way American school children recited the pledge before the Nazis came to power in Germany.
Some liberal and progressives recite the pledge this way:
'I pledge allegiance to my Flag, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with equality, liberty and justice for all.'
Bellamy considered placing the word, 'equality,' in his Pledge. However, he knew that the state superintendents of education on his committee were against equality for women and African Americans in 1892.
Rightardia salutes Attorney Danny Lampley for standing his ground. The judge was clearly off his rocker if he insists on people saying the pledge before a court hearing.
source: http://www.oldtimeislands.org/pledge/pledge.htm
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'I pledge allegiance to my Flag, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with equality, liberty and justice for all.'
Bellamy considered placing the word, 'equality,' in his Pledge. However, he knew that the state superintendents of education on his committee were against equality for women and African Americans in 1892.
Rightardia salutes Attorney Danny Lampley for standing his ground. The judge was clearly off his rocker if he insists on people saying the pledge before a court hearing.
source: http://www.oldtimeislands.org/pledge/pledge.htm
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