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The Pledge of Allegiance is a “very touchy subject” in University of Wyoming student government meetings because it could offend international students, according to a student veteran who recently joined the government and wanted to recite the pledge.

Campus Reform reports on the struggle of Army Staff Sergeant Cory Schroeder, who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan:

“Multiple senators sat me down and said it was a ‘very touchy subject’ and ‘we don’t want to offend anybody,’” Schroeder told Campus Reform.

According to Robert’s Rules of Order, which the student government follows, time may be taken out at the beginning to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Instead of saying the Pledge, however, ASUW’s mission statement is read aloud, which includes striving for “accurate representation” and “responsible effective leadership”.

Schroeder was allegedly told to wade into a quagmire of red tape:

The U.S. veteran was given the option of writing a bill to allocate 20 seconds at the beginning of the meetings for those who want to say the Pledge.

However, he fears this would be a “long process” in which the “liberal standing committee” would nitpick the bill’s grammar in order to delay it.

Read the whole article here.

h/t Young Conservatives

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