Brandon High School Band pulled from football game performance (and fined $7,500)

MSNews ^ | August 21, 2015 | Maggie Wade

[SamAdams76]

Donald Trump would do well to pay the $7,500 fine and then pay double that to the marching band.

Would get him a ton of publicity while sticking it to these intolerant fascists.

[SamuraiScot]

If you let the hymn in, then some islamist would demand that a muslim chant be put in also. . .

Who cares what some islamist would demand? The proper course of action would be for the district to ignore the demand and ignore any judge who tells them to do otherwise. It's a local matter. Singing a religious song is not establishing a religion. If it comes to that, the Constitution is silent on states or localities having established religions. It's Congress that "shall pass no law" establishing a government religion.

States that insist on banning religious practice or official toleration within their own constitutions are free to do so. Other states are free to do otherwise—countenancing some and not others, or apportioning more "air time" to some religions than others.

Now is the time to have this fight. The Constitution makes sense, and it says what it really says—not what a handful of 20th-century Communists on the Supreme Court decreed in fortune-cookie aphorisms.

[Bigg Red]

State where this occurred?

[Bigg Red]

It is so much more considerate when a poster lets us know from the beginning the state that is involved.

[BraveMan]

O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder,
Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made;
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy power throughout the universe displayed.

Refrain:
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!

Refrain

When through the woods, and forest glades I wander,
And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees.
When I look down, from lofty mountain grandeur
And see the brook, and feel the gentle breeze.

Refrain

And when I think, that God, His Son not sparing;
Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in;
That on the Cross, my burden gladly bearing,
He bled and died to take away my sin.

Refrain

When Christ shall come, with shout of acclamation,
And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart.
Then I shall bow, in humble adoration,
And then proclaim: "My God, how great Thou art!"

[T-Bone Texan]

It’s a great song!

We sang it yesterday at my leftist hippy church!

[al_c]

Madness. In every single one of my kid’s choir performances over the past two years, many of their songs were about God, or faith in God. No one complained. Yet, this band can’t even play the notes to a religious song … no matter the lack of words? Madness.

[GingisK]

Yet, we all got along.

I was glad when school prayer was ended. Too many kids were making a mockery of it, and some were utilizing interpretations that were not correct for my denomination. Religious ceremony is best kept where it can be sacred.

[yorkie]

Sorry, Jess - I added that, and forgot to add ‘district’.

[yorkie]

The view count is NOW almost 106,000 since it was uploaded two days ago. People are NOT happy about this, and the word is spreading fast!

[Leaning Right]

The only fix is to separate the government from education, so that these football games would not have any sort of government-related implications.

My fix was a Constitutional amendment. Your fix is better, and much more doable.

[SaraJohnson]

Brandon is where my little sisters grew up. Dad first retired to a house in Brandon and then moved to a different house and town with lower property taxes after the girls were off to college. Back then, Brandon was a orange grove and cow pasture. Now it is all built up and none of my sisters live there.

[TXnMA]

"Our only difference now is that we still say Trespasses, instead of debts."

Interesting. I'm a Baptist Deacon -- and I still prefer "trespasses" "Debt" doesn't even approach the meaning of "trespass".