{"id":570371,"date":"2021-06-22T13:06:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T17:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=570371"},"modified":"2021-06-22T13:06:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T17:06:29","slug":"mayor-bans-pledge-of-allegiance-at-meeting-attendees-recite-it-in-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayor-bans-pledge-of-allegiance-at-meeting-attendees-recite-it-in-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Bans Pledge Of Allegiance At Meeting, Attendees Recite It In Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmayor-bans-pledge-of-allegiance-at-meeting-attendees-recite-it-in-protest%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=570371&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DC-Silverton-Pledge-Recital-Featured-scaled-e1624378545594.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"37.777777777778\">\n<p>Silverton, Colorado, Mayor Shane Fuhrman announced that the Pledge of Allegiance would be banned at trustee meetings and faced nearly immediate backlash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to direct and indirect threats, inappropriate comments in and out of public meetings and general divisiveness and issues created in our community, we will not be reciting the Pledge of Allegiance during Town of Silverton trustee meetings,\u201d he announced during a meeting on Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/kdvr.com\/news\/silverton-nixes-pledge-of-allegiance-at-town-hall-meetings\/\">Fox 31 News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>In response, attendees recited the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/08\/29\/professor-pledge-allegiance-lawsuit\/\">pledge<\/a>\u00a0during the public comment period, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/colorado-mayor-bans-pledge-of-allegiance-at-meeting-attendees-recite-it-anyway\">FoxNews.com<\/a> noted, causing the mayor to declare them out of order. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/08\/15\/hillary-clinton-kneeling-pledge\/\">(RELATED: Hillary Clinton Encourages 11-Year-Old Who Knelt During Pledge Of Allegiance To \u2018Protest Injustice\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"12.479108635097\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Silverton, CO\u2019s Mayor unilaterally banned the Pledge of Allegiance at city meetings.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to put into words what kind of anti-American disgrace this is.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Fuhrman should resign and purchase a one-way ticket to China where he won\u2019t have worry about hearing the pledge! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tjzU1cnOv0\">pic.twitter.com\/tjzU1cnOv0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laurenboebert\/status\/1405860981121638400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cTo tell members of the public they are not allowed to say the Pledge of Allegiance during public comment and threaten to have them removed that it was one strike in you\u2019re out policy violates every single one of their first amendment rights,\u201d trustee Molly Barela said in a statement to Fox 31.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert also supported those who recited the Pledge of Allegiance and called out the mayor over what she called \u201can anti-American disgrace\u201d on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laurenboebert\/status\/1405860981121638400\">Twitter.<\/a> \u201cMayor Fuhrman should resign and purchase a one-way ticket to China where he won\u2019t have worry about hearing the pledge!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silverton, Colorado, Mayor Shane Fuhrman announced that the Pledge of Allegiance would be banned at trustee meetings and faced nearly immediate backlash. \u201cDue to direct and indirect threats, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280962,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DC-Silverton-Pledge-Recital-Featured-scaled-e1624378545594.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Mayor Bans Pledge Of Allegiance At Meeting, Attendees Recite It In Protest","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DC-Silverton-Pledge-Recital-Featured-scaled-e1624378545594.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Mayor Bans Pledge Of Allegiance At Meeting, Attendees Recite It In Protest","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}