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Ten-year-old refuses to stand for Pledge of Allegiance
When ten-year-old Will Phillips, of West Fork, Ark., found a principle he couldn't stand up for--he sat down.
The Janesville Gazette - Janesville, ...
Standing up for your rights by sitting down
There are a lot of things to be thankful for this holiday season. I'm thankful for Will Phillips.
CNN's Phillips: Kids Who Bully Pledge Spurner Are 'Wads, Dork Wads'
On today's CNN Newsroom, anchor Kyra Phillips went after the kids who supposedly bully a 10-year-old boy who refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance because homosexual marriage isn't widely accepted.A Some of his classmates allegedly call him names.A Phillips's weapon of choice was name calling: And a message to you boys who are bullying Will, ...
My new hero is a silent 10-year-old
Considering the way my last hero from Arkansas turned out, I wish Will Phillips were from somewhere else.
a Very solemnly, with a little bit of malicea
That 10-year-old lad in West Fork, Will Phillips, has become something of a hero.
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Boy refuses to recite pledge until gays allowed to marry
Ten-year-old Will Phillips may have just become the new cause celebre of the gay rights movement.
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It was a GOOD week for a WILL PHILLIPS . The West Fork fifth grader declined to say the Pledge of Allegiance because he said he didn't believe the U.S. provided justice for all, particularly gay people.
Hey, kid, youa d better make that pledge
Therea s a 10-year-old lad, a fifth-grader at West Fork Elementary, who decided he wasna t going to say the Pledge of Allegiance at school anymore because there was no liberty or justice for all in America, as the pledgea s rote recitation asserts.
Fifth-grader sets cat among the pigeons
"Will Phillips, is a fifth-grade student at West Fork Middle School in West Fork, Arkansas.
10-Year-Old Boy Refuses to Say Pledge of Allegiance
KNWA News : WEST FORK, Arkansas -- "When I heard from the principal, I was not happy," said Jay Phillips.
Arkansas student in trouble for backtalking teacher over Pledge
WEST FORK, Ark. - A middle school student who refused to stand for and say the Pledge of Allegiance has been disciplined for suggesting a teacher "jump off a bridge" when she objected to this behavior, the school principal said.
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