Interesting. You have to watch out for people who demand a loyalty oath, I think. I know that such a loyalty oath was formally required of all Germans, for instance, between 1933 and 1945. In that case it was a loyalty oath swearing one's personal loyalty to "the leader", and that's apparently what the Texas Democratic Party appears to want also.

I'm not surprised Kucinich crossed that line out, because he's not about to be anybody's puppet. He believes in freedom of conscience.

Loyalty is something that has to arise naturally and spontaneously in people (like respect). If it doesn't, it's not real.

No one can guarantee such respect and loyalty with an oath, but an oath can be used by a power structure to later bring legal pressure down on anyone who was pressured into giving that oath at the time...thus making such an oath is simply giving away your own future right to use your own free will responsibly.

That's unwise.