Posted on 08/26/2011 11:56:23 AM PDT by rjsclassics
First it banned the words, now the whole song. Tiny Goshen College in Indiana has banned the "The Star Spangled Banner: at all sporting events because the Mennonite school's president considers the National Anthem's words to be too violent.
The 1,000-student school had already banned the words last year, but the band could still play the music for patriots in attendance. Now, the school has banned the song entirely, according to NBC Sports.
The school’s board of directors told college President Jim Brenneman to “find an alternative to playing the National Anthem that fits with sports tradition, that honors country and that resonates with Goshen College’s core values and respects the views of diverse constituencies.”
Brenneman was okay with that.
“I am committed to retaining the best of what it means to be a Mennonite college, while opening the doors wider to all who share our core values,” Brenneman said. “And I invite others to join us at Goshen College as we make peace in all of its forms, even with the national anthem.”
Art professor John Blosser told The Goshen News that there is much national pride at the school, but that most people aren't going to blindly accept what the country does.
NBC Sports' Rick Chandler weighed in, saying: "I suppose we could have followed the example of the Mennonites and simply fled, giving the nation back to the British. But then we’d all be playing cricket."
I find it hard to respect people who want others to do the hardest work fror them;and defending against the variety of bad men and evil empires is the hardest work I know.
I don’t think that’s the reason they’re thinking.
Hippies are a different matter.
In the interest of full disclosure, I am a former Mennonite and a Goshen grad, class of 1990. As far as I know they do not have a football team. Soccer, basketball, baseball, field hockey, softball, track and field.
Goshen does have a number of students from non-Mennonite churches and backgrounds. They tried to accommodate the other students and schools who appreciate the anthem being played before the sporting events took place. I guess enough well-healed alumni complained, so the president reversed course.
The Mennonite Church has long held the peace position, but only recently has the church taken the position that pacifism equates to social activism. Many of the profs were conscientious objectors who have now been granted tenure and indoctrinate the student body. The Mennonite Church is only a few years behind the United Church of Christ and Unitarian Universalists in their liberalism. It greatly saddens me.
After that they're going to get rid of the Declaration of Independence because it mentions Our Creator, which offends atheists.
Finally they're going to declare the Constitution null and void because it was written by white racist slave owners.
All I can say is THANK GOD THESE AMERICA HATING LIBTARD BASTARDS DIDN'T FOUND THE UNITED STATES AND WRITE THE CONSTITUTION!
Jesus THREW the moneychangers out of the Temple.
;-)
And also mentioned a sword, etc.
Jesus wasn’t beyond showing might (but hey, He was God), but he wasn’t big on it with the mere humans.
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