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Originally Posted by punky
Certainly sounds OTT to me. I can understand how freedom of speech sometimes has to be roped in a bit to try and keep everyone in harmonious accord, but who is he really offending by doing that?
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i dont know if this is true.......
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It was ADDED in after the fact. Many years later by a religious group. Under God was not in the original pledge......
The pledge of allegiance was written and created by Francis Bellamy in 1892. It never had "under god" in it.
In 1954, after a campaign by the religious group called the Knights of Columbus, they *added* the words, 'under God,' to the Pledge.
"Bellamy's granddaughter said he also would have resented this [second] change... In his [later years] he stopped attending church because he disliked the racial bigotry he found there.
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