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Polio~ actually quite a few of us in our neighborhood had had it. March of dimes for a cure!
Why would anyone want to change the pledge of alliegence? Add language that threatened the separation of church and state!!! Yet they still decided to add the words "under God" in the middle.
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Why? Because it was the 1950s, they were citing a Lincoln speech, and the Communist cold war was very forefront in the country's mind. It was to make a patriotic point that our country was NOT the same as Russia who worshiped the state and believed that rights were NOT inalienable and something you were born with but GRANTED by the state.
It is currently voluntary and been upheld as a "ceremonial and patriotic nature" not consituting an establishment of religion
It didn't threaten anything. Mentions of a God go as far back as the country.
I have a feeling that even if "under God" were removed, plenty of people would still find fault with the entire concept anyway.
Er, yes, that's what I wrote. 'He was going to be the first Catholic president'.
Let's try this again. Your words "... was going to be..." indicate that he didn't serve. That is obviously incorrect. He was elected to the Presidency on November 8-9, 1960. He was inaugurated as President on January 20, 1961. He served as President until his assassination on November 22, 1963.
Therefore, Kennedy WAS the first Catholic President.
Let's try this again. Your words "... was going to be..." indicate that he didn't serve. That is obviously incorrect. He was elected to the Presidency on November 8-9, 1960. He was inaugurated as President on January 20, 1961. He served as President until his assassination on November 22, 1963.
Therefore, Kennedy WAS the first Catholic President.
Best wishes.
You are technically (and grammatically) correct, but going back to Fox Terrier's first post in this exchange, his memory is of JFK being elected and he appears to be writing from the perspective of the time of that election. JFK at that moment in time was not yet the first Catholic President. No one yet knew how that was going to turn out and the fears were real in some circles. At the moment in time that Fox is writing from, JFK's presidency was still in the future, so "going to be" is most accurately descriptive to make the point I think FT was trying to make.
He was going to be the first Catholic president, and everyone was wary about how the country would change because of that.
Yep, even my Mom, who was the kindest person in the world, said " I'm worried about Kennedy getting elected because he is Catholic !" Shows how conservative people were in the 60's.
Let's try this again. Your words "... was going to be..." indicate that he didn't serve. That is obviously incorrect. He was elected to the Presidency on November 8-9, 1960. He was inaugurated as President on January 20, 1961. He served as President until his assassination on November 22, 1963.
Therefore, Kennedy WAS the first Catholic President.
Best wishes.
But in the context of this thread, my words are correct. People were talking and arguing about how the country would change WHEN THE FIRST CATHOLIC PRESIDENT TOOK THE OFFICE.
A short time after he became president most of that talk died down.
I believe this thread is about what controversies people were discussing nation-wide. They were discussing the ramifications of a Catholic president, BEFORE HE TOOK OFFICE.
Everyone know he became president; why would I intimate otherwise?
The things that were concerning 'society' around you when you were growing up (in the US) were very different to what was going on in my little part of the world.
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