God Now In Texas Pledge

[Dardedar]

DAR
Expect crime to soon drop:

Texas Students Must Now Acknowledge God in Pledge to the Texas Flag

Melanie Markley, The Houston Chronicle, August 2, 2007

The revised Texas pledge:

Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.

Texas students will have four more words to remember when they head back to class this month and begin reciting the state’s pledge of allegiance.

This year’s Legislature added the phrase “one state under God” to the pledge, which is part of a required morning ritual in Texas public schools along with the pledge to the U.S. flag and a moment of silence.

State Rep. Debbie Riddle, who sponsored the bill, said it had always bothered her that God was omitted in the state’s pledge.

“Personally, I felt like the Texas pledge had a big old hole in it, and it occurred to me, ‘You know what? We need to fix that,’ ” said Riddle, R-Tomball. “Our Texas pledge is perfectly OK like it is with the exception of acknowledging that just as we are one nation under God, we are one state under God as well.”

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[Doug]

DAR
Expect crime to soon drop:

Texas Students Must Now Acknowledge God in Pledge to the Texas Flag

DOUG
I grew up mostly in Texas and never heard of this pledge. We never had to recite it.

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

I grew up totally in TX and substitute taught as well for a few years before I left the state in 1980. There was no Texas pledge - over, under, or around god or anything else. The Rs of my youth and young womanhood were never this wacko (not even in Waco). The only thing I can figure is those northern Rs who moved in during the 80s put something "funny" in the Pepsi. (Texans mostly didn't drink Pepsi in my years there - RC and Dr. Pepper definitely, Coke's OK if the RC's gone, teeth-hurtingly sweet ice tea of course, and beer if you're old enough, but not Pepsi.)