“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 ...

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 are facing backlash over a proposed bill that would require public schools to begin each day with the Pledge of Allegiance and a Judeo-Christian prayer—or risk losing millions ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...