How is this news, you ask?
Because he refused to say it since gay people don't get liberty and justice in America:
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There’s a 10-year-old lad, a fifth-grader at West Fork Elementary, who decided he wasn’t going to say the Pledge of Allegiance at school anymore because there was no liberty or justice for all in America, as the pledge’s rote recitation asserts.
He’d concluded that gay people didn’t get equal justice or liberty in this country and that he was loath to mouth something suggesting they did.
That is to say the boy was thoughtful, sensitive, courageous and free.
So his class had a substitute teacher who bugged the boy for not standing. She told him he ought to get up and say the pledge.
The youngster didn’t care for being nagged, and he snapped. He told the substitute teacher to go jump off a bridge.
Then the substitute teacher sent him to the office where the principal did not coerce or punish him in regard to the pledge, but did assign him, on account of his sassing the teacher, to do a report on the history of the pledge and the symbolism of the flag.
He’d concluded that gay people didn’t get equal justice or liberty in this country and that he was loath to mouth something suggesting they did.
That is to say the boy was thoughtful, sensitive, courageous and free.
So his class had a substitute teacher who bugged the boy for not standing. She told him he ought to get up and say the pledge.
The youngster didn’t care for being nagged, and he snapped. He told the substitute teacher to go jump off a bridge.
Then the substitute teacher sent him to the office where the principal did not coerce or punish him in regard to the pledge, but did assign him, on account of his sassing the teacher, to do a report on the history of the pledge and the symbolism of the flag.
