[Vision2020] Re: City Council and the Pledge

[pcook818 at adelphia.net]

The Pledge of Allegiance
A Short History
by Dr. John W. Baer
http://www.history.vineyard.net/pledge.htm

"Francis Bellamy (1855 - 1931), a Baptist minister, wrote the original Pledge in August 1892. He was a Christian Socialist. In his Pledge, he is expressing the ideas of his first cousin, Edward Bellamy, author of the American socialist utopian novels, Looking Backward (1888) and Equality (1897)" .....

A Christian Socialist Baptist minister expressing the American socialist utopian ideas of the late 19th century. Let's all get on board ;-)

Philip Cook
Moscow