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Jan. 30, 2013 8:49am Billy Hallowell

Rocky Mountain High School Under Fire for Allowing Pledge in Arabic & Other Languages

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Controversy is brewing in Fort Collins, Colo., after a Rocky Mountain High School decided to allow a multicultural student group to recite the Pledge of Allegiance over the loudspeaker in Arabic, among other languages. The situation landed Principal Tom Lopez in hot water, with a slew of angry statements and threats being phoned into the school.

Lopez, citing an extremely diverse school body, explained that he was approached by the student-led Cultural Arms Club and asked whether pupils could recite the Pledge in languages other than English. French, Spanish and Arabic were some of the options that were chosen, with the school agreeing to allow students to read the Pledge in these tongues during morning announcements.

Recent frustration over the decision is making headlines, but this isn’t the first time that patriotism and intent have been questioned surrounding the school’s controversial Pledge allowances. The Coloradoan reports that angst over the club’s actions first began back in November:

Members in November recited the Pledge in Spanish, sparking intense debate about whether saying the words of the Pledge in any language other than English was unpatriotic.

Despite “rude” comments from classmates who disagreed with the November recital and anticipated “resistance” this week, Cultural Arms Club members decided to go forward with translating the Pledge into Arabic. They have plans for translating it into American Sign Language, Korean and possibly Chinese.

“We have a tremendous amount of diversity in our school,” the principal explained.

He defended Rocky Mountain’s decision, claiming that the Pledge is still an allegiance and devotion to the U.S., regardless of what tongue it is uttered through.

“When they pledge allegiance to United States, that’s exactly what they’re saying,” Lopez added. “They’re just using another language as their vehicle.”

What started as an attempt to recognize this diversity has ended up being a headache for Lopez, who is fielding calls from angry community members who are outraged that the Pledge is being recited in Arabic — or in any language other than English.

“I guess I’m getting worn down a little by how intense their sense of hate has been represented in some of the things they’ve written and said,” he told KSLA of the ongoing response.

In addition to the furor, Lopez said that the school has also received positive comments about the inclusive nature of the club’s approach to the Pledge.

What do you think? Should the Pledge be recited in any language other than English? Do you feel the club’s actions are beneficial to the school community — or divisive? Let us know in the comments section.

(H/T: KSLA)

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zoro51
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:43am
WTF why speak the pledge of alelegance in any other language other than ENGLISH.. much less in MURDERING MUSLUM words.. TRAITORS.. fire ALL teachers princiapals boards of educsations this IS AMERICA NOT A THRIED WORLD DUNG HOLE.. HERE WE SPEAK ENGLISH PERIOD NOT MURDERING MUSLUM OR ANYTHING ELSE

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- toiletclogga
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:57am
  When we start reciting the pledge of allegiance in gibberish, it’s over. The pledge no longer means anything. This is why the Catholic church walked away from the Latin mass, and began to say the the mass in the indigenous tongues of whichever country it was being said. Understanding the pledge is much more important than saying the pledge.
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:58am
  HOW ABOUT THE TRUTH: THE “tremendous DIVERSITY” is what is tearing AMERICA to shreds. Fine to come to America; respect your heritage…but damnit…when you are here you are supposed to be AMERICANS…that is speak ENGLISH…that is learn AMERICAN HISTORY…that is RESPECT THE AMERICAN FLAG AND THE AMERICAN PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE .
  
  YOU educational whoomps who can’t get the difference between ‘inclusion’ and ‘shredding America’ need to go back to school and be taught. THIS IS AMERICA. There is no other nation on earth who would put up with this nonsense and we won’t either. As far as the goofy Muslims who think they are going to take over the world…Adhere to American policies or get out.
  
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- toiletclogga
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:20am
  @ Patty Henry–If you are referring to me as an educational whoomp, I believe you misunderstood my post. I happen to agree with you. What I was referring to was having kids who do not know or understand Arabic saying the pledge in Arabic for those who do not know or understand Arabic who are listening as the pledge is being recited. Say it in the indigenous language which in this case is English. I see no benefit in these kids saying it in Spanish, German, Arabic, whatever!
  
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- Displacedsoutherner
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:24am
  He had many faults but Teddy Roosevelt hit the nail on the head with this:
  
  “In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
  
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- HigherRoad
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:30am
  @PATTYHENRY — I completely agree with you. The only problem is–school IS the problem. The only educational facilities where children are being taught American history and learning basics in math and English are home schools, faith-based schools and some private schools. The public schools no longer teach authentic American history nor expect children to master basics in grammar and spelling. “Invented” spelling is acceptable in many schools and history from an obscure or multicultural perspective is lauded over “factual” history. The purpose in this, of course, is to steal the minds of this generation and propagandize them to accept a global government.
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:40am
  TOILET ETC I was not referring to you at all..only the goofy Principal at this school who is
  “upset that there are complaints” duh, dude…(to the Principal) :)
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:48am
  All of them need to be kicked out of the country. This how these idiot’s interpreted the Constitution…. http://weaselzippers.us/2013/01/30/genius-obama-supporter-democrats-must-amend-the-constitution-to-allow-c-section-babies-to-run-for-president/
  
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- termyt
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:51am
  As long as it is an accurate translation, I don’t see why the fuss. We should be encouraging loyalty to the US’s ideals and principles. To call someone taking such an oath a traitor for doing it in a language other than English is ludicrous – the height of foolishness.
  
  It is every bit as ridiculous as the loopy principal allowing the pledge in Arabic in the first place.
  
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- stablepar
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:53am
  try that in iran
  
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- MittensKittens
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:54am
  No wonder people are freaking out here…our country is being overrun by these cockroaches…we need some powerful pest control…
  
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- resme
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:05am
  Atleast we don’t salute like Hitler anymore, lmao.
  
  http://i48.tinypic.com/rvy80x.jpg
  
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- HigherRoad
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:28am
  TERMYT–It does make a difference. Unless this particular group of children were enrolled in a foreign language class for Arabic, there is no reason whatsoever for them to be reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in any language other than English. First of all, it is disrespectful to the American flag and to those who have given their lives for this country. Secondly, reciting the Pledge in any other language is tantamount to speaking gibberish. It has no meaning for those speaking it nor those hearing it. It demeans the purpose of the Pledge of Allegiance.
  
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- Joe_The_Patriot
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:28am
  It just keep getting worse…. The demise of our culture is coming at the hands of “diversity”
  Why is it so wrong to celebrate the american culture??? If you come here to live then you better assimilate to OUR culture.. If YOUR culture means soooo much to you then please by all means go back to where you came from… America “was” great for a reason.. and it’s being destroyed by marxists communists and immigrants who want to force their culture on the rest of us.. Eff THAT.. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! IT NEEDS TO STOP!!!
  
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- Sarah_Palin_Is_God
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:51am
  You are a moron. What difference does it make what language the pledge is recited in? It is the pledge of allegiance to America! Go try not to get bitten by your snakes while reading your Bible and cleaning your guns.
  
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- NHwinter
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:07pm
  Sarah_Palin_Is_God – You sound like you have bought the progressive slippery slope propaganda.
  
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- termyt
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:28pm
  Highroad – I certainly don’t support the pledge for the entire school in Arabic, but you go too far.
  
  It disrespects no one who fought and died for our liberties to honor their sacrifice and our ideals in another language. In fact, it honors them.
  
  Love of life and liberty knows no language. You do not need to speak English to yearn to breath free.
  
  If you want to talk about the language of barbarians, let me ask this: What language did the tyrants who oppressed our Founders speak? Should their language also be deemed disrespectful to those who fought for our freedom from them?
  
  If you say the pledge five times a week, there is no harm or malice in hearing it in another language one of those days.
  
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- Ari Ben TZion
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:43pm
  Here is the translation of the Arabic Pledge of Allegiance:
  
  I pledge allegiance to Mohammed
  the poster boy of pedophiles,
  and to the evil he represents.
  
  All Arab nations under satan
  With liberty and justice for none.
  
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- Chetnik
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:54pm
  If what you’re suggesting happens, then whosoever fires this instructor will be a Nazi right? I mean, when the Greek Golden Dawns tried to fire an instructor for trying to teach her class partly in Albanian and letting her students sing the Greek national anthem in Albanian, you were up in arms talking about how Greece will soon become the 4th Reich. I hope I’ve put a few things into perspective for you in these few sentences, and I hope you take greater care in the future before accusing someone of something they have yet to do (and probably have no intention of doing).
  
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- IWISHIWASINTEXAS
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:58pm
  I can’t believe that I actually disagree with most of the commenters here. I think it would be one thing if the school was forcing students to learn and recite the pledge in another language but they didn’t. This is still the same pledge to the United States and not the Arab States. We shouldn’t be getting offended over a language spoken by those who murder. When someone shoots up a school or kills a family we don’t blame the gun. Their language is just a tool of communication. Same with a gun it’s just a tool. I think we’re being too quick to pass judgement and be offended because they are using another language. We’re starting to be as petty as liberals
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 1:08pm
  zoro51, speaking of English, yours needs some work.
  
  Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t the Pledge say “…with liberty and justice for all?” So, it says that everyone has liberty, but not the liberty to speak another language? Who decides what liberties you can and can’t have? You guys?
  
  And then there’s that “indivisible” part of the Pledge. How does that relate to the topic of states seceding from the union?
  
  Here’s an interesting fact: person who first wrote and published the pledge in 1892 was a “Christian socialist.”
  
  Wiki defines Christian socialism as, “a form of religious socialism based on the teachings of Jesus. Many Christian socialists believe capitalism to be idolatrous and rooted in greed, which some Christians denominations consider a mortal sin.[1] Christian socialists identify the cause of inequality to be associated with the greed that they associate with capitalism.[1]
  
  Ya learn something new every day, huh.
  
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- HigherRoad
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 1:26pm
  TERMYT–Sorry, but you are speaking nonsense. If we were forced to choose another language to recite the Pledge, I guess that would have to be French since the French did side with us against the British; however, most of those who speak Arabic hate the U. S. and call us “The Great Satan.” Why should we speak allegiance to our own flag and nation in a language of a people who detest freedom and promote Shariah law over our own Constitution?
  
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- AmericaMustBeFree
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 1:27pm
  Where the heck are the parents.. Your giving your country away idiots! This is America.. learn the language, and stop bringing your rubbish into our schools! Keep your cultures and traditions at home.. if you don’t want to be American.. than by all means go back to wherever you came. My ancestors came here.. weren’t supported by any government etitlement.. worked hard, learned to speak english and raised their families to be American’s..when they left Norway they had a few things in mind.. to earn a good living, to work hard, to worship however they chose and most of all to live the dream as American’s.. they were Norweigian’s in name only.. they gave up their country to become American’s,, now we have those who bring their culture and want to change ours.. enough is enough!
  
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- jefferson68
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 1:40pm
  It is disheartening to me to read these comments from people I would normally consider to be fellow patriots on The Blaze. The intolerance and ignorance of some of these comments disgust me. Remember that our country was built on one of the main principles that all men are created equal! I too came from a very diverse high school, and two weeks out of the ENTIRE school year were dedicated to multiculturalism, during which time the various clubs would be allowed to recite the UNITED STATES Pledge of Allegiance in their language. This included not only Arabic, Hmong, and Chinese, but also in German, French, Spanish, etc. Regardless of the language, it is the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States! I thought it was great to see and hear these languages spoken and to hear the pledge of allegiance to this country in these various dialects. Stop being some closed-minded nutjob that the mass media already makes us out to be and be supportive of the diversity that the founding fathers wished to create.
  
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- RavenGlenn
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 1:53pm
  For those that are a bit dim…like the OP at the top of this thread…we here, in the United States of America have no official language.
  
  I speak nothing other than English and while I find it frustrating to go places where I cannot even understand the employees in a store…it is their right to employ non-native speakers, just as it is those people’s right to speak whatever language they want. The pledge of allegiance to this country is a sentiment that can be expressed in whatever language someone chooses. America and ‘god’ do not have a language. Period. If you have a problem with this, then you need to re-evaluate who you are and what you stand for.
  
  Good for this school. As long as they do not force their student body to learn those languages against their will, then let students recite these patriotic and heartfelt sentiments in whatever way they choose.
  
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- termyt
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 2:01pm
  I think my words are quite clear and easy to understand, Higherroad. I even wrote them in English for your benefit. What does not make sense to me is saying that a language is disrespectful or unusable (or even treasonous as one put it) because it is the primary language of an enemy. That is silly progressive newspeak. A lot of very cowardly, very tyrannical, very unworthy speech has also been written in English throughout the ages.
  
  We should be happy that Arabic speakers want to say the pledge in the language that is most understandable to them. Who is being forced to learn and understand Arabic? Are you so intolerant of people unlike yourself that simply hearing a foreign tongue is offensive to you?
  
  The “higher road” sounds like a pretty “progressive” path to me. Are you serious in your accusations or are you just trying to troll? I prefer to stay on the straight and narrow. The path where we take our ideals to people of all cultures and languages because they are worth sharing.
  
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- HigherRoad
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 2:27pm
  TERMYT–One can respect other cultures and other languages without incorporating them into a pledge of loyalty to our flag and nation. What is the purpose of reciting these words if they have absolutely no meaning? I am a patriot; I love my country, and I do not wish to see it handed over to nations or cultures who denigrate and seek to destroy our freedom, Constitution, and culture. Sorry if that offends you, but there are many more who think as I do that we need to take a stand to prevent creeping pluralism from destroying the fundamental makeup of our nation.
  
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- gosutag
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 2:45pm
  @Z0R051: You must be Mr. Ignorant. Meet Mr. Logical. I disagree about the Pledge of Allegiance being sung in languages other than English because it is the United States Pledge of Allegiance. In reference to your ignorant comment of the “MURDERING MUSLUM words,” you are more than 50% wrong. Seeing as most of the population that speaks Arabic aren’t even Muslim.
  
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- daniel3839
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 2:56pm
  How many schools in Mexico, or the middle east you figure are allowing their kids to show allegiance to their nation in a FOREIGN LANGUAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??
  
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- cdn1979
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 3:13pm
  ummmm……you do know that arabs and their language only make up less than 25% of the muslim world right? I don’t see how the language makes a difference. if a terrorist speaks english, does that make all english speaking people terrorists? your head must hurt from being so dumb.
  
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- CathyvanDyke
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 3:17pm
  Theodore Roosevelt – Immigration (1919)
  
  “In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
  
  President Theodore Roosevelt 1919
  
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- CathyvanDyke
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 3:23pm
  Teddy Roosevelt: “No Room in This Country for Hyphenated Americans”
  
  Theodore Roosevelt
  Address to the Knights of Columbus
  New York City- October 12th, 1915
  http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.ca/2010/05/teddy-roosevelt-no-room-in-this-country.html
  
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- imgreenlantern2
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 3:51pm
  The end of America will be brought to you buy the liberal commie democrats.
  
  ALL HAIL KING BARACK I.
  
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- newmexicopatriots
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 4:32pm
  Zoro51, I agree with you. But….. you may want to use a spell checker every now and then, I could hardly read your post.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:45pm
  People in the US can say whatever they want, in whichever language they prefer.
  It’s the beauty of free speech…
  .. of course there are consequences from such speech… employment termination, social ostracization, etc.
  Let me know when it gets interesting … like someone shouting “FIRE!” in a crowded theater.. in Arabic…. then we’ll have something..
  
  Bunch of dorky kids saying the pledge in Arabic? … Meh… couldn’t care less.
  
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- SELECT
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:38pm
  hell-oooo, are there no adults in America’s school systems? I’ve know for years that liberals have high-jacked the entire K thru college education system, but this stupid act is beyond the pale.
  
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- Racemosa7
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:51pm
  Here is the reason for all of these ills. When you put the Scriptures aside, and try to reason you are at the mercy of foolishness.
  http://www.soulwinner.com
  
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- murphdog
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:11pm
  My daughter came home one day many years ago from school and cited the pledge in Spanish, word for word. I told her English only, and no other language will do in my home. This is what the teacher was teaching my child, instead of teaching kids who can’t speak English, they teach ours another language. What a freaking joke of a school system we have in this great land, didn’t Ronald Reagan say this was an English nation.
  
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- stonemike
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:17pm
  What is wrong with America, every parent of every child should pull their child out of this school! Every teacher, every administrator should be fired and loyalty oathes should be given to every teacher in America! We are headed for civil war and when it starts I hope someone pops the mexican teacher that instigated this treason!
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 11:46am
  …and all crosses shal be removed from all chuches and King-Ocommie’s face will be plastered all over the walls.
  
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- stopspending
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 2:01pm
  I love the way immigrants come to the US because we have freedom. They then demand that they be given quotas and special privileged so they can equally compete. Their next step is to demand that they be allowed to retain their own culture from their past country. Wait a minute, if you want to keep the culture and laws from your old country, why do you come to the US? We used to be a melting pot. Now no one wants to lose their culture so we are a country of competing ideas and cultures speaking in different tongues making us way too divided.
  
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- Mulder1
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:35pm
  Arabic is the language of Islam, our enemy. Say the pledge in English; multiculturalism is destroying our nation.
  
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- Thomas
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 6:11pm
  If they speak english what would be the purpose of resiting it in another language unless the intention was to separate instead of unite.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 7:01pm
  see first amendment Zoro.. rights go both ways
  
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- survivorseed
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:09pm
  They are pledging allegience to the flag of the United States of America no matter which language they say it in. The only reason I can think of why many posters here are so upset is because 1 of the languages is Arabic and 10% of Arabic speakers are muslim. I would have thought that it would be seen as patriotic. Don’t touch our second ammendment rights but allow us to trample your first.
  You do realise the bible was translated into English don’t you.
  
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- Anamah
  Posted on February 1, 2013 at 12:12am
  These teachers should learn to be respectful to the USA and teach their students to become American loving members of this country, reciting the pledge in English with deep emotional link to our history. If they are unable to inspire true sincere patriotism in the students community, they must be fired. “Diversity” deserve to have the opportunity to become us.
  
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shogun459
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:43am
Understanding starts by speaking the same language, WHY are our schools working to divide us?

Anything to divide us, We have one language in this country. It is English. By not teaching all of the next generation the same language it keeps us divided.

Not teaching children of immigrants the Laguage of our country you DOOM them to lesser paying jobs.

Maybe THAT’S WHY Liberals and Communists that we maintain subcultural languages,,, to stop the immigrants from being able to compeat with Thier children.

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- TheCalmOne
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 4:26pm
  Can you point out to us where in the Constitution it says that English is the official language of the United States?
  
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- HigherRoad
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 5:15pm
  All citizenship applicants are required to hold basic knowledge in the English language and American civics before earning citizenship (citizens from English-speaking countries are not required to sit through the English examination). At the interview, tests are given on English reading, writing and speaking, as well as basic U.S. history and governance.
  
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- The_reaganbater
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 5:26pm
  Since when did encouraging students to learn more than one language become so elitist in your head?We use to celebrate intelligence in this country, not look down on it.
  
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- HigherRoad
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:45pm
  THE-REAGANBATER–We all know that this has nothing to do with learning a second language. Being bilingual is definitely an asset in this modern world, but this is not about learning to speak Arabic. What we are emphasizing here is maintaining respect and honor for our nation, our flag, and our Constitution. Reciting the Pledge in Arabic over the loud speaker is not helpful in learning Arabic as a second language. It denigrates the Pledge and what it represents as a national symbol. Many parents would not want their children saying the Pledge to “one nation under Allah.”
  
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Cavallo
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:42am
I’ve said my last pledge many years ago. I’ll be unlikely to ever say it again. I’ll not pledge allegiance to an entity continually attempting to enslave me.

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- 4xeverything
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:23pm
  It’s not the country trying to enslave you it’s this administration and it’s party. The country and the ideals it was founded upon still stand and will continue to stand as long as we teach those ideals to our children. Including the pledge.
  
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bankerpapaw
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:37am
Our Muslim president should be very proud.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:47am
  Peace be upon our devout Caliph.
  
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- annieoakley
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 1:18pm
  The students don’t know Arabic. Most of the children here have a Hollyweird value system. They could be pledging allegiance to anything and the teachers and principal don’t know either, what they are committing themselves too.These people are FOOLS, trusting the ‘religion’ that flew planes into two cities and buried one in the ground in PA.
  
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barber2
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:34am
I am pleased to know they even say the Pledge of Allegiance in a public school anymore. With all of the anti-American fervor of the international / Democrat Left, I figured the Pledge was a thing of the past..like patriotism .

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- 9111315
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:42am
  I really don’t know what they said — it was in Arabic!
  
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- 4truth2all
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:51am
  This has nothing to do with patriotism … it is a crafty way in the acceptance of Islam ,hidden in diversity.
  
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- GetRight
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:59am
  Yes. I was surprised, too. I don’t think it should be in recited in any language other than English. I especially do not like the “under allah” part!
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:00am
  4: Apparently, it is not PC to be a patriotic American with this International Democrat crowd.
  
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- 4truth2all
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:19am
  Yo 2:
  Got ya … upside down and inside out they seem …
  
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- resme
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:05am
  “the Pledge of Allegiance” was written by a socialist christian in the 1800′s. We used to salute like hilter before WW2. I pledge allegiance to the united “states” of America, Sounds real fascist, huh?
  
  http://i48.tinypic.com/rvy80x.jpg
  
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- resme
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:09am
  “In 1891, Daniel Sharp Ford, the owner of the Youth’s Companion, hired Bellamy to work with Ford’s nephew James B. Upham in the magazine’s premium department. In 1888, the Youth’s Companion had begun a campaign to sell American flags to public schools as a premium to solicit subscriptions.”
  
  Oh Goody, Youth Camps.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy
  
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- Winedude
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:14pm
  “I figured the Pledge was a thing of the past..like patriotism .” Just remember, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” Samuel Johnson
  
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Shamrock241
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:30am
What do you think? Should the Pledge be recited in any language other than English? Do you feel the club’s actions are beneficial to the school community — or divisive? Let us know in the comments section.

Blaze i will be Ok with them reciting the Pledge of Alligence in arabic when you can prove to me that this was the language the HONORABLE President and General George Washington was reciting it in.

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:38am
  actually, Sham, doesn’t the Pledge post date Washington by a century or so?
  Though I take your implied point about the Nature and Purpose of the Pledge.
  
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- Locked
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:57am
  @Shamrock241
  
  “Blaze i will be Ok with them reciting the Pledge of Alligence in arabic when you can prove to me that this was the language the HONORABLE President and General George Washington was reciting it in.”
  
  I’m infinitely more worried about the state of our history classes if they’re churning out folks with an education like yours than I am with the pledge being reciting in several languages. The pledge was written in the late 1800s and was not formally adopted by Congress until the 1940s.
  
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- Shamrock241
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:01am
  You are correct Sir written 1892, sometimes i wish we could delete our own ignorant post!!
  
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- Dagnabbit5
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:03am
  Yes it does.
  Washington died Dec 14, 1799.
  The pledge was written 1892.
  
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- Winedude
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:24am
  And the nonsense line “under god” was added by Congress in the middle 50′s, about 1955 I believe.
  
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- Jadedfate
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 3:42pm
  LOL, that’s hilarious..the Pledge came long after Washington and any founding father..in fact, they probably would have been very much against it. It was written by a socialist, to get people to pledge loyalty to the state. Learn history, sir.
  
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semihardrock
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:28am
A Muslim Brotherhood-linked organization has partnered with the U.S. Department of Education and the State Department to facilitate an online program aiming to connect all U.S. schools with classrooms abroad by 2016.

Vartan Gregorian, a board member of the organization in question, the Qatar Foundation International, was appointed in 2009 to President Obama’s White House Fellowships Commission.

The Qatar Foundation International, or QFI, in 2011 partnered with the Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to facilitate matchmaking between classrooms in the U.S. and international schools through something called the “Connect All Schools” project.

QFI relates how more than 100 U.S. schools and organizations have already connected on the interactive website, http://www.connectallschools.org.
Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corp. charitable foundation, was appointed by Obama in 2009 as a White House fellow. Born in Tabriz, Iran, Gregorian served for eight years as president of the New York Public Library and was also president of Brown University.

WND was first to expose that Obama and Ayers used the project grant money to fund organizations run by radicals tied to Ayers, including Mike Klonsky, a former top communist activist who was a senior leader in the Students for a Democratic Society group, a major leftist student organization in the 1960s, from which the Weathermen terror group

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- barber2
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:37am
  The 60s radicals keep reappearing like the after effects of a bad meal. They were toxic to American values in the 60s and they still today. Ayers should never have been allowed to go free on a technicality and because of a rich dad !
  
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- shorelineliz
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:16am
  Yup. This is just one more tool in the arsenal of the Islamists to turn all our little public school robot children into Muslim loving robots under the banners of tolerance and diversity. Do you still have your child in public school and why? Can anyone say Rocky Mountain Allahu Akbar?
  
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:28am
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We are in so much trouble. Really don’t know what to say, but Drone Strike comes to mind as a possibility……………

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justangry
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:27am
Why would anyone pledge allegiance to our current state? I can’t physically resist the tyranny thrust upon me, but if I had an opportunity to live in a free society, with a free market, where natural rights could not be voted away by the mob; I’d take it in a heart beat. What language one uses to agree to their subjugation makes no difference.

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- resme
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:08am
  Don’t forget, Justangry, We used to Salute like Nazi Germany. The pledge of allegiance was written by a socialist. Pledging Allegiance to a mafia government….
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy
  http://i48.tinypic.com/rvy80x.jpg
  
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- calmdownplease
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 2:17pm
  Listen: part of being an American is loving, or at least accepting, our democracy. We all have lived under presidents, administrations, congresses, etc. that we didn’t agree with. We say to ourselves “well this sucks, but it will be over soon enough and that’s why I love America!” If you think you shouldn’t have to endure 8 years of a president that you don’t like then you are diametrically opposed to our democratic system, and American ideals in general. If that’s the case than you will never be happy in America, so go ahead and find another place. See ya.
  
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- justangry
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:54pm
  @calmdownplease, That’s crap! We’re not talking about a little disagreement on the economy, or gay marriage or some political disagreement here. We’re talking about our RIGHTS being dismantled by both parties and not being able to stop it. You can take that democracy stuff and shove it, unless you can convince me that 50.01 percent of the population thinks we no longer should have the right to a trial. Or just one voter that wants fluoride in the water supply. You’re a fool if you think you have a choice in anything.
  
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ares338
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:27am
The language the pledge is spoken in is important. Too often immigrants come to this country and never learn English. One guy who worked for me in Commiefornia told me his mother had been in the US for 25 years and still didn’t speak English. As far as I remember we speak English here and if you don’t like it scroo yoo!

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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:34am
  Two generations of immigrants in my family. Both are non native speakers English & yet they learned to speak English very well. In fact the nonwhite one speaks English better than the white immigrant (no accent). Both are high earners. Imagine that.
  
  As Michael Savage would say “Diversity is perversity”.
  
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semihardrock
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:27am
By Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM — A Muslim Brotherhood-linked organization has partnered with the U.S. Department of Education and the State Department to facilitate an online program aiming to connect all U.S. schools with classrooms abroad by 2016.

Vartan Gregorian, a board member of the organization in question, the Qatar Foundation International, was appointed in 2009 to President Obama’s White House Fellowships Commission.

The Qatar Foundation International, or QFI, in 2011 partnered with the Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to facilitate matchmaking between classrooms in the U.S. and international schools through something called the “Connect All Schools” project.

QFI relates how more than 100 U.S. schools and organizations have already connected on the interactive website, http://www.connectallschools.org.
Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corp. charitable foundation, was appointed by Obama in 2009 as a White House fellow. Born in Tabriz, Iran, Gregorian served for eight years as president of the New York Public Library and was also president of Brown University.

WND was first to expose that Obama and Ayers used the project grant money to fund organizations run by radicals tied to Ayers, including Mike Klonsky, a former top communist activist who was a senior leader in the Students for a Democratic Society group, a major leftist student organization in the 1960s, from which the Weathermen terror group

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- Canyouhearus
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:00am
  I will check the links you posted and thank you for this information. I almost hate to ask, but what do they give as “stated purpose” for thins online connection with foreign schools? And what are they teaching? I’m sure it won’t be the life and times of George Washington! There seems to be no end to these intrusions into our lives and culture.
  
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TexPat
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:27am
INDOCTRINATION, INDOCTRINATION. This should NEVER have been done or condoned by the school administration. This discussed me beyond words. Parents had better get a better hold of their schools.

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- Capt_Gregg
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:46am
  The school wants to jump onto the PC bandwagon and show off its diversity by allowing the pledge to be recited in Spanish and Arabic. That’s pure and unadulterated bullsh!t. The administrator responsible should be fired, as he has shown that he has no business educating children. The ONLY reason for anyone to recite the pledge in another language is that they don’t speak English. I think it’s safe to assume that the students in a Colorado high school do not fall into that category.
  
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- SpankDaMonkey
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:49am
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  Crap like this hapens here in Texas all the time. We have Muslim Stuidies, all sorts of Mexican &Black studies. What about the White Studies Group?……..
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:58am
  SPANK: ” White history?” That used to be called World History which the kids aren’t taught anymore. Probably why they don’t have a clue about “old ” Communism and the ties we see to it and the Far Left Democrats in America today.
  
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- Locked
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:00am
  @Spank
  
  “What about the White Studies Group”
  
  I think the answer is pretty much the same one my mother used to give me when I asked why there was a Mother’s Day, but no “Child’s Day”.
  
  “Every day is child’s day! At least let us mothers have one day for ourselves!”
  
  The White Studies Group is commonly called “US History.”
  
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- Amonite
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 1:41pm
  “Ata’ahado bil walaa li ‘alam Al Woliyat Al Mottahida Al Amrikiya w lil Jomhoriya illi bitmathilha: balad wahed taht Allah, la yatajaza’, ma’al horiya wel adl lil kol.” (apparently, I don’t speak arabic, I just got that off of yahoo answers)
  
  ‘Under God’ would become ‘Under Allah’ –> as if the two were in any way equivalent.
  
  Indoctrination is right! Indoctrination away from american values and a melting pot culture (from many, one) into ‘relative morality’ and a fractured culture.
  
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- TheCalmOne
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 4:21pm
  CAPT_GREGG – No, as far as I can see it’s just a little educative exercise opening kids’ minds a little by exposing them to other languages. They used other languages as well- did you not read the original article? Arabic is just a language, like English and Spanish are just languages. Sure it’s the language of the Koran and muslim terrorists, but then German was the language of the Nazis, and there’s nothing inherently evil about German, is there?
  
  AMONITE – In fact they are equivalent. “Allah” is simply the Arabic word for “God”, as I confirmed for myself recently when I attended an Antiochian Christian funeral service.
  
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fastgen1
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:25am
Help, help, help, defend us from these freaks running our schools. Is Sharia law next, if so 1/2 of the teachers in our schools will be put to death as homosexuals. Are the liberals and gays running our schools really this stupid?

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ares338
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:19am
Sigh…this is NOT multi-culturism….it is indoctrination!

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HigherRoad
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:11am
America has always had a diverse population, but we have had a common language (English). Families and ethnic neighborhoods may have often spoken in their native tongues; however, the national language, including school instruction, was English. The kind of “multiculturism” demonstrated by the school in Fort Collins just seeks to divide our nation. No longer do we have common ground in our faith, history or language.

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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:10am
Well.It was The Pledge Of Allegiance. No Muslim would be allowed to say it.As long as by the end of the day you are speaking English, It does not matter what language you say it in…assuming that you mean it.

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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:47am
  Thank you!!
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:59am
  Who is going to translate what they are actually saying in Arabic?
  
  They might be saying something totally different…
  
  “I pledge allegiance to Allah and to the destruction of America…”
  
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- jeffile
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:11am
  The problem is “I pledge allegiance to the United States of America” which pre empts allegiance to God and “One nation, under God” refers to a Judeo Christian God. Those who recited the pledge in Arabic have and are Muslim are in danger of being killed for blasphemy.
  
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ginger100
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:10am
globalization will give us a global prezzy

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BODYBAG
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:08am
Training for little fledgling radicals begins early

Diversity = Tolerance

Enough with the “tolerance” BS.
Learn it in ENGLISH or get out.

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Zipit
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:08am
Tom Multicultural Lopez! Imagine that!!! What a TOOL! I’d have walked out!
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=ROxvT8KKdFw&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DROxvT8KKdFw

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Thundergod
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:07am
Dont we require immigrants to learn English? dont they teach English in our schools? So why must the pledge be recited in arabic? I’m curious to hear what they were actually pledging to and have a translator verify that before allowing pledges in foreign languages that the rest of the community cant understand. Thats why we stand and say it together in the same language,to be one united voice pledging to the same nation,not to divide up in groups and make pledges separately from one another in our own dialects.

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- checkingbothsides
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 2:01pm
  You understand it wasn’t JUST Arabic right? Did you read the article? They recited in a number of different languages. Most Americans never leave this country to see the rest of the world, so could USE some exposure to other cultures and languages. This isn’t surrendering our country or any crap like that, it’s a learning opportunity. Yknow, the point of school? To learn things?
  
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diamondcutter
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:07am
its the progressive way. take an inch. its jus an inch. what s the big deal. would love to know what the % of the groups are. its probably 60-40 in that town. sounds like another great divider in cheif. all right, i just going to say it. minorities RULE!!!!!!! go USSA. break out the pom poms. lets here it. U…S…S…A. sorry i lip synced it. sounded better.

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RANGER1965
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:01am
One tour in the desert ends all childish foolishness about culture and compatibility. Illusions about the oneness of man get shattered like glass.

It’s kinda like a tree hugger getting lost in the jungle for a weak. All the mystical crap goes out the window when confronted with the merciless, red tooth and claw of nature. I wish I could open their eyes.

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- redfish52
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:10am
  This is part of the Obama multiculturalism plan to make all one big happy family…happy…happy…happy.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:14am
  Good post.
  I often laugh at the nature lovers complete ignorance of the brutality of nature.
  Its about SURVIVAL. Kill or be killed.
  
  Its the way God created it.
  
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- 4truth2all
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:46am
  Actually Bodybag:
  
  It’s not at all how God created it … but don’t believe me; read Genesis
  Survival of the “fittest” is more like evolution …
  and there ain’t NOTHING liberal bout that!
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:41am
  @4TRUTH2ALL
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:46am
  Actually Bodybag:
  It’s not at all how God created it … but don’t believe me; read Genesis
  —————————————————————————
  Actually I have many times.
  Dont assume that everyone is ignorant and only reads the PC vegan bible version published for PETA.
  
  “And God made the beasts [chayah] of the earth after their kind”
  
  The verses specifically delineate between different classifications of animals. If all animals
  were vegetarian this would not have been necessary.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:54am
  @4TRUTH2ALL
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:53pm
  Yo Doug:
  ……grace is not a free ticket and to think such would be called foolishness … Good day
  ————————————————————
  Similar to your FALSE statement above.
  Stop misleading people.
  Grace is a free gift.
  You cant buy it, You cant earn it. You dont deserve it.
  It is GIVEN to you in spite of yourself.
  
  http://www.theblaze.com/users/4truth2all/
  
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- 4truth2all
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:36pm
  Yo Bodybag:
  
  You seem to have trouble understanding my words …I think I know why but I’ll leave it lay.
  
  KINDS … has NOTHING to do with eating meat, chomping on veggies or having soup …. more like sparrows produce sparrows, dogs dogs and cats cats. pine trees pine trees and oak trees oak trees! This would also mean that there was death before the fall. This would seem to go against scripture, don’t know about the PETA version.
  GRACE … you should have posted the entire thought and the statement it was to … (talk about misleading). I NEVER purposely would mislead ANYONE ANYTIME, unlike what you seem to do as you accuse me.
  Yes, grace is a free gift of God but it is NOT a FREE TICKET to sin, it is the means to stop it and live as the LORD desires us to. I said nothing incorrect or misleading and if ever proven to have, I am not so arrogant and prideful as to not admit it … and now we will see :-) or :-(…? Good day
  
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- 4truth2all
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:50pm
  Yo Bodybag:
  
  ” Grace is the ability God gives to do His will, not ABUSE it.”
  That is the FIRST sentence in my FULL statement.
  
  AGAIN … and you accuse me of misleading ???
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 2:51pm
  @4TRUTH2ALL
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:50pm
  Yo Bodybag:
  AGAIN … and you accuse me of misleading ???
  ———————————————————–
  Yes I do.
  And I dont speak ebonics so you can drop the “Yo” that you seem to address
  everyone with. I graduated high school long long ago.
  
  In typical liberal fashion you deflect and misdirect instead of specifically addressing the
  issue in question directly.
  
  I also notice that not a single one of your posts contains ANY reference to actual verse.
  My ONLY interest is in what the book states —– not your “interpretation” of it.
  
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- 4truth2all
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 4:12pm
  Yo Bodybag:
  
  Yo … dude … I was as direct as can be nor do I misdirect, redirect or undirect.
  Your problem is you are incorrect and cannot admit it ,thus … :-( as expected
  Concerning bible verses … No I do not always list bible verses as some do I have my perfectly good reasons for not doing so.( talk about redirection)
  You seen to not understand scripture as applied to grace … so let me ask you as you called me out …what is grace ???
  It is not a matter of “MY” interpretation (that is a cop-out) … scripture explains scripture …” take the whole council of God ”
  And … I guess because you say I am a liberal I must be … I didn’t know that, but if you say so it must be.
  Act 4:33
  John1:16
  Roman11:6
  1Timothy 1:13-14
  There’s A FEW verses … it’s a puzzle put it together.
  It is the grace of God working in us to do His will , continuing to sin and expecting grace/ His goodness/mercy is unwise.
  Grace, mercy and peace to you … as scripture many, many times says
  Final .. Please read Romans 6 ( the entire chapter) and by all means let me know your thoughts on these verses …
  
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Ron Staiger
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:01am
It is NOT the language being used that is important but rather the words that are being spoken. My father told me that as a child he would beg my grandmother to not speak German on the trolley car because of how people would stare at them. A Jewish neighbor used to scream “Nazi” at my father and grandparents every time she saw them in their back yard even though my grandparents were US citizens since 1926 -all because of the language being spoken. No one should have to go through such idiocy.

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brntout
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:00am
Excuse me, but it’s assimilate, not diversify…What DumbA$$ hired this guy? Oh that’s right the NEA

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progressiveslayer
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:59am
Multicultural student groups are whats bad for America,how about just having an American classroom and drop the hyphens. “We have a tremendous amount of diversity in our school,” the principal explained. Yes we see what ‘diversity’ has done to the UK and what it’s doing to the U.S.

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- Raisingmy3boysright
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:16am
  Amen!
  
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- Schteveo
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 1:57pm
  My mothers parents came here from Italy in the early 1900′s. They both learned to speak English, without a Federal ESL Program at a subsidized Outreach Program. They both became citizens and way back when they became citizens there was but one language that they could use for the Pledge.
  
  English.
  
  What I don’t understand is HOW those poor people, with no help from D.C. managed all they did, and today with ALL the help available, many people can’t seem do it, without talking about all they feel is wrong with the country. What a crock of BS.
  
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