The new council in Dawson City, Yukon, cannot make official decisions until the issue is resolved.

Summary

Dawson City in Canada is facing a crisis as the new mayor and councillors won’t take the required oath of allegiance to King Charles.

They refused in support of an Indigenous councillor who opposes the oath due to the Crown’s history with Indigenous people.

Without the oath, their election could be canceled, and they can’t make official decisions.

The council has asked for a different oath, but Yukon law requires the pledge. Authorities are now looking into the situation.

  • mack7400@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    10 hours ago

    I’m jelly of Americans, who will never have to deal with that bullshit. Nope, not at all!

      • MonkeMischiefEnglish
        13·
        7 hours ago

        …By a country that largely claims to follow a belief system wherein it is explicitly and plainly laid out: “Don’t swear oaths (Matthew 5:34). Don’t make idols / worship images or objects.” (The second commandment)

        Anerican patriotism is a cult lifestyle brand.

      • Furbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        7 hours ago

        Not just an inanimate object - an idea that that object is meant to represent! We’re about one level of abstraction away from the pledge of allegiance becoming a meaningless mantra of words with no meaning or relation to one another strung together to make a pretty song that is always sung off-key by grade school children.

        • redhorsejacket@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          7 hours ago

          I mean bag on the pledge of allegiance all you like, but using the flag as a synecdoche of the nation as a whole doesn’t seem like it is as great a leap of logic as you are making it out to be.