Posted on 08/26/2011 10:27:08 AM PDT by dragnet2
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
I’m sure the “March of the Volunteers” is just fine when the PRC basketball team shows up to play.
Unless people step up to the plate to crush this movement NOW and HERE, like political correctness it will spread like a plague.
Mennonites and Quakers are the parasites who were allowed to exist because brave men fought and died wars for freedom.
They most certainly should NOT be setting the standard for American behavior.
Too late.
I think ‘God Bless America’ should be our national anthem.
Those damned Amish...
I can’t get the link to work.
Here’s a question to all -— Why did we choose Francis Scott Key’s poem to be our National Anthem instead of say, America the Beautiful?
(BTW, I have seen sports events in the USA where America the Beautiful was sang instead... just observing ).
Either that or "America The Beautiful" BTW do you have your flame resistant suit handy? I do. We may need it.
Fights are perilous. Ramparts are often involved. Rockets and bombs do indeed burst in air.
THAT is too violent for them? Are they wilting violets or men?
Pacifists are social parasites, protected by better men.
[ Those damned Amish...]
Don’t you mean “Mennonites”?
I don’t, that song is awful and inspires none of the same sentiments of the anthem, which was clearly crafted on purpose to inspire those sentiments, due to the context in which it was developed.
No offense, but yours may just be the worst suggestion of any kind I’ve heard all week.
The Yankees play it at the stretch each game (and a particularly agonizing, off-key version sung by a man who sounds like hes about to die) and despite my through the roof patriotic demeanor in general, need to jet to the restroom to save my ears.
Mennonites & Quakers have existed here since long before the Republic was founded.
I agree, pacifism is wrong headed...but it hasn’t exactly expanded, and is not exactly “setting the standard for American behavior.”
Do you think they should NOT be allowed to exist?
Anabaptist Conscientious Objectors have aided the war efforts of this nation in their own unique way, and, sometimes, paying the ultimate price through volunteering for various medical experiments.
The oath I took to defend the Constitution includes the free exercise clause of the First Amendment and while I may not agree with the ACO's position I will defend it to the death.
What the heck FOR???
We have a GREAT National Anthem which ACKNOWLEDGES GOD, is based on an acatual event in our Second American Revolution which very possibly saved the Country.
We don;t need a palid substitute.
And I LIKE the Bombs Bursting through air and our Star Spangled Banner JUST FINE thank you!
Bet their team mascot is a p***y!!
So sorry, will try to control myself better in the future.
The Liberals want “The Internationale” to be our anthem.
(Amish are nothing but fundamentalist (Luddite) Mennonites, who separated from mainstream Mennonites in the 19th Century)
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight’
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming.
And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen, thro’ the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream;
‘Tis the star-spangled banner: oh, long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Oh, thus be it ever when free men shall stand,
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation;
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land
Praise the Power that has made and preserved us as a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust”;
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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