A Minneapolis suburb’s city council voted unanimously Monday night to reverse its decision to nix the Pledge of Allegiance from its meetings after it was met with outrage — including from President Trump.
According to the Star Tribune, the city council said that the criticism has taken a toll on the staff and kept the city from doing its work. More than 100 people packed the City Council chambers Monday night to protest its June 17 decision to nix the pledge after a similar protest took place last week.
#Breaking: The St. Louis Park City Council has voted to reinstate the Pledge of Allegiance prior to regular meetings. @StarTribune pic.twitter.com/diOoSTbgkP
— Zoë Jackson (@zoemjack) July 16, 2019
The Star Tribune notes that although the pledge was not originally scheduled to be discussed Monday night, Council Member Thom Miller made a motion to reinstate it because the city was being flooded with emails and phone calls that he believed endangered city staff and residents.
“There are many from outside of St. Louis Park who are abusing and harassing our city staff, making it very difficult for them to serve the residents and businesses in our city, which is the very reason our local government exists,” Miller reportedly said at the meeting.
Council members then voted 7-0 to reinstate the pledge. The city said it will begin reciting the pledge again before regularly scheduled council meetings, twice a month.
Monday night’s vote came a week after President Donald Trump vowed to join the fight to reinstate the pledge.
The city council did not initially drop the pledge over concern for anyone not on the city council. That is the reason the city council initially dropped the requirement to say the pledge is that the members of the city council got tired of saying the pledge every time a few of them get together to discuss picking up the garbage or catching stray dogs.
Take those flags out of their hands and that’s a Nazi salute. Did they sing the American version of the Horst Wessel song?
“If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.”
“As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen [Muslims],—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Mohammedan] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
[ Adams submitted and signed the Treaty of Tripoli, 1797 ]”
Flipping through my Bible to find the passage where God says it’s a-okay to worship false idols.
The Pledge is stupid. As if anyone who is disloyal would refuse to say it. Indeed, the traitor would say it with extra fervor. Except for the Orange Excrescence, who can’t remember the words.