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Originally posted by rainmaker
... My opinions about my country, my country's enemies, my country's friends, or anything else of national politics should have no bearing on my basketball. That's freedom. Associations requiring refs to wear flags, or even recommending, feels like prayer in the public schools. It sounds good on paper, but when you start to think about it, it gets real dicey. Whose prayer? Which God? Which form? Kneeling how? Facing where?
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There is only one God. We all just have different understandings and
opinions of what he is like and what he requires. Even when there are organizations or meetings of many faiths, they seem to find a common ground in having a prayer that is acceptable.
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It is outlawed for a reason, it's unconstitutional, and so should the requirement to express political views be.
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The difference is
public schools versus
private officials' organizations. The supreme court has upheld right of private organizations to establish requirements more confining than the constitution allow for public institutions. The constitution doesn't allow the government to outlaw such things. (The recent Boy Scouts ruling, for example.) Futher, the unconstitionality of prayer in schools is marginal. It was a split decision, if I remember right. It was constitutional for 200 years before some more liberal judges came to the bench and interpreted it differently than all their predecessors.
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... Over and over again, other political expressions have been "un-required" by the Supreme Court, such as the flag salute, the singing of the National Anthem and so forth and so on. Why would requiring or even recommending a flag on our uniforms be any different?
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The supreme court rulings on "un-required" it for public instutions. Their rulings have no bearing on private instutions.
For that matter, it seems like the association that is requiring this took a VOTE and it was nearly unanimous (all present voted for it, with a few absences). That's about a democratic and free as it gets. The association as a body chose to do it.
This country was founded on Christian principle and by Christian people. The country's founding fathers are probably rolling in the graves over the recent Supreme Court's desecration of the prinicples on which this country formed.
[Edited by Camron Rust on Oct 16th, 2001 at 12:39 PM]