[Vision2020] City Council and the Pledge

[Melynda Huskey]

Is saying the Pledge of Allegiance actually a governmental matter?  Did the citizens of Moscow decide that the Pledge should be said at City Council meetings? When?  And why not sing the national anthem?  The state song?  The MHS fight song?  (Do we have a city anthem?)

There are several religious denominations, including my own, the Quakers, which do not condone the use of such pledges.  Perhaps one of the new council members belongs to one of them?

I much prefer that the Council not employ an empty form of words to open their meetings:  we'll judge their allegiances by their actions, not by their recitation of a set formula.  "Liberty and justice for all" don't magically appear because we said the words; pledging our faithfulness to a flag doesn't make us good citizens.


Melynda Huskey