[UND hockey team anthem kneeling]

Please dont compare Catholic church to players kneeling?  

[UND hockey team anthem kneeling]

22 hours ago, NoiseInsideMyHead said:

I'm reminded of going to church as a Catholic.  As rote as many of the traditions of Mass are, including the predictable collective standing, kneeling, etc., I can recall several parishioners who would genuflect or kneel while others were standing, or who would bow their heads at different times.  Even when taking communion, some do a sign, others genuflect right there at the altar, and some did both, while many others did nothing.

Nobody ever said "Boo" about it, including my hyper-Catholic, nun-trained, Mass-every-day father.  It was their thing.  Their relationship with God.  Who was anyone to question it.

If you respect people's rights to worship and practice religion with individual variation, rather than blindly following along with the crowd, how can you begrudge some people who want to observe the national anthem with a solemn, non-disruptive display?

Would you next take after people who choose not to sing, or mouth the words, or shuffle on their feet, or who look positively disengaged and detached?

Maybe the only solution is to eliminate the anthem from most public gatherings altogether.