The Tennessean: Substitute says job lost for refusing to say pledge

Our Conscience

By JAY HAMBURG
Staff Writer

Hickman school officials say silence isn't why he's bypassed

One nation, under God.

Or is it?

A substitute teacher in Hickman County claims he lost his job yesterday for raising that question.

Chris Warren is not an atheist objecting to the religion in Pledge of Allegiance. Instead, he says he wishes the planks of the pledge were upheld. Because they're not, he said, he refused to say the pledge in class.

He doesn't believe phrases like ''one nation under God'' and ''indivisible'' and ''liberty and justice for all'' are true anymore.

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