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"It’s a sad day when Americans start viewing non-violence as incompatible with the U.S. Constitution"
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A sad, sad story
The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting today about a Quaker teacher who lost her job for “refusing to sign an 87-word Oath of Allegiance to the Constitution that the state requires of elected officials and public employees.” As I read the story, I was thinking to myself, “My goodness, I wonder why she refused to sign the oath…” Then I read a little further:
A veteran public school math teacher who specializes in helping struggling students, Kearney-Brown, 50, had signed the oath before - but had modified it each time.
She signed the oath 15 years ago, when she taught eighth-grade math in Sonoma. And she signed it again when she began a 12-year stint in Vallejo high schools.
Hmm. Why on earth would a teacher not agree to support the Constitution?
Each time, when asked to “swear (or affirm)” that she would “support and defend” the U.S. and state Constitutions “against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” Kearney-Brown inserted revisions: She wrote “nonviolently” in front of the word “support,” crossed out “swear,” and circled “affirm.” All were to conform with her Quaker beliefs, she said.
The school districts always accepted her modifications, Kearney-Brown said.
*GASP* *EGADS*
Supporting non-violence rather than the use of force?
Then I read the best part of all:
“Based on the advice of counsel, we cannot permit attachments or addenda that are incompatible and inconsistent with the oath,” the campus’ human resources manager, JoAnne Hill, wrote to Kearney-Brown.
It’s a sad day when Americans start viewing non-violence as incompatible with the U.S. Constitution.
If we are going to fire teachers because they add one word to the oath of allegiance to the Constitution, are we then willing to go all the way and vote out all the legislators that everyday take back their promises to uphold the Constitution and defend it?
I doubt that the same people who fired this teacher are willing to call for the resignations of their representatives on Capitol Hill for lying to the American public by violating their oaths to the Constitution. At least this teacher was being upfront about her beliefs.
I don’t know about you, but stories like this only make me want to work even harder to bring freedom, peace, and prosperity back to our great country.
This entry was posted on Friday, February 29th, 2008 "