Given their traditions, there is no reason why they would play the national anthem at sporting events.
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Correct...this is really ‘old news’. Even the article cites “Historically, playing the National Anthem has NOT been among Goshen Colleges practices...etc”
So this isn’t a practice that was thought up yesterday.
Go to a ball game with multiple fields and ‘the norm’ is if a game is in progress and another is just starting they DON’T stop the game in progress to observe the Anthem being played for the game just starting....(at least at the majority of the HS games I have been to this spring).
I really figure in this case better to let the kids get used to it. Oh yes, the kids do have a ‘team meeting’ prior to their games with no coaches present...heads bowed etc...don’t imagine they are praying now do you....
Few years back - as a civilian - I was exiting Fort Dietrick MD when Evening Colors were being observed...I exited my vehicle and stood at attention while the car behind me started blowing his horn. (I wasn’t impeding anything because the MP’s had ‘stopped’ what they were doing). Last I saw of the ‘horn blower’ was a couple of MP’s had him pulled over “inspecting his vehicle” etc...
Perhaps the 'horn blower' will think next time!