“The flag ... “The Pledge of Allegiance is part of an expression of being loyal to your country,” she said. Odd Fellow members also recite “The Lord’s Prayer.” The Christian practice ...

Hegseth argued that the flag and the Pledge of Allegiance ... timeline doesn’t support this view. The Pledge of Allegiance, written in 1892 by Christian minister Francis Bellamy, was designed ...

A bill in the Alabama House would require students to start their school day by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and then ...

All K-12 schools in AL could soon be mandating Christian prayer at the start of the day or face losing state funding the ...

Alabama lawmakers debated Wednesday whether to require schools to start their day with the Pledge of Allegiance and a Judeo-Christian prayer ... t understand what the flag is.” ...

I don’t remember going down the rusty slide that brisk fall day; what I do remember is when my mom gave me an American flag ... their meetings of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. A bill recently filed by North Carolina Republicans would compel public schools to ...

"I pledge allegiance to my flag and the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Some consider Bellamy a socialist and his creation a criticism of ...

in place of a blind Pledge of Allegiance, we could all sing along with Woody Guthrie’s ‘This Land is Your Land,’ or we could recite an Ojibwe hymn, or we could even raise the flag of the ...

She said that it started on January 10, when the Pledge of Allegiance started playing over school speakers. “I decided I wanted to sit down because I didn’t feel comfortable standing because ...