A friend of mine recently cast off his American birthright to become a Canadian citizen (actually, he just became a dual citizen, but casting off birthright sounds very cool). He was given the choice of either swearing or affirming the oath of citizenship. He was told that "you are encouraged to bring the holy book of your choice".
He put it nicely: So politically correct, it offends everyone. Does this not seem a little odd? Mind you, I don't have any better suggestions. It's just interesting to see that we have no universal standard to hold each other too.
In the same super-politically-correct, you have to pledge allegiance to the Queen of England!? It is just plain bizarre. I was born in Canada and have apparently tacitly agreed to all of these things.
Swear to your god. If you do not have a god, just promise.
Comments
Francois Tremblay - June 28, 2001 3:14 am
And if you're a stupid christian with a web-blog, just bleet. Hey, that's what all your compadres do right...
J - June 30, 2001 12:01 am
That, friends, is relative objectivity.
D - June 30, 2001 3:54 pm
amen
Tyler Smith - July 1, 2002 11:55 pm
I'm unsure about why you have a problem with swearing allegience to the Queen of England, as she *is* our head of state...