Looks like someone Got Woke in San Juan Island - from Seattle station KIRO:
Am. Legion members say senior center compares Pledge of Allegiance with Nazism
Drama is unfolding faster than a flag at the Mullis Community Senior Center in Friday Harbor due to a new restriction on saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
Recently, the Mullis Community Senior Center Board of Directors decided — without speaking to center members, allegedly — to remove the traditional prayer and Pledge of Allegiance before lunch, other than on a few specific days when the pledge would still be allowed. The senior center is funded by San Juan County.
“They wrote a new rule into their house rules stating that nobody could do this without the first prior coordination through them, so they took it upon themselves simply as their board and rewrote the rules for the senior center,” American Legion Post 163 Commander Daven Holzer explained.
A group of seniors decided to start saying the pledge on their own about 15 minutes before the meal. They did not make anyone join them who did not wish to, but wanted to still take the chance to salute the symbol of the nation.
And when the Veterans said the Pledge anyway:
The next day, however, Holzer said that he received a less-than-appreciative phone call from the director of the senior center.
“She just didn’t understand how it was right that I should come storming and barging in there, dictating how they’re doing things,” he said.
In the meantime, the flag no longer stands in the main gathering space of the center. Holzer said that American Legion members have been threatened, harassed, and kicked out of the building.
And of course, as when dealing with liberals, Godwin's Law happens:
When Holzer confronted senior center staff asking how it could restrict people’s constitutional rights, he said that the response was, “You think that the people of Nazi Germany enjoyed saying, ‘Heil Hitler?'”
This is not about God and Country - that is a different Pledge and God is not mentions in the Pledge of Allegience:
Additionally, Holzer and American Legion Post 163 Sergeant-at-Arms Shannon Plummer said, a senior center staff member allegedly assaulted a senior saying the pledge.
While the American Legion’s motto is, “For God and country,” Holzer and Plummer understood the church and state argument for removing the prayer from a government-funded senior center.
What they did not understand was how citizens could be forbidden from reciting words that mean a great deal to them. Just as it would be unconstitutional to force someone to say the pledge, they said, it is equally unconstitutional to force them not to.
Needless to say:
The Mullis Community Senior Center had not yet responded to requests for comment at press time. The story will be updated if and when a response is received.
Glad I live in Island County. One of my groups meets in the building that houses the senior center and there is an American Flag prominently displayed in the lobby.
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