No problem. End all federal funding to the University of Oklahoma. The student government wouldn’t want any of that dirty money anyway, would they?
Campus Reform reports:
OU student gov scraps Pledge of Allegiance, says it’s ‘incompatible’ with US ConstitutionA student government group at the University of Oklahoma passed a resolution removing the Pledge of Allegiance from its agenda.The Undergraduate Student Congress claimed that the pledge “is incompatible with the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment as pledging your allegiance to the flag of the United States as one nation under God” is in conflict to the right of freedom of speech, free exercise of religion, and petitioning the government.The resolution passed Tuesday by a vote of 15-11, reported KFOR-TV.OU senior Gabi Thompson, who sponsored the resolution, stated that her motivation for removing the pledge was because it was written for the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ discovery of America, which she believes to be problematic.”It was written as a celebration of Columbus Day in 1892, and in the city of Norman we don’t celebrate Columbus Day, we celebrate Indigenous People’s Day,” Thompson told KFOR-TV.OU’s international community makes up 10 percent of the student body, according to Thompson.The OU College Republicans wrote a response stating that “while we respect everyone’s right to not say the Pledge of Allegiance, we would urge them to do otherwise. The Pledge of Allegiance transcends partisanship, race, ethnicity, and all of the divides in our country. It reminds us that though we may disagree, or look different, or not worship the same, we are one nation, indivisible.”
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