News, Mennonite College No Longer Plays National Anthem. (Amish, revolution, school)

[JD59]

Goshen College will no longer play The Star-Spangled Banner at sporting events, school leaders announced, reversing last year's decision to allow the use of the national anthem for the first time in the Mennonite college's history.

Some Mennonites had criticized the anthem's lyrics as glorifying war and offensive to the school's pacifist traditions.

Mennonite College No Longer Plays National Anthem

[Boompa]

Mennonites and Amish do not owe alliegance to nations, for them a pledge of alliegence or national anthem would be a violation of their religious beliefs. This was a problem in the Revolutionary War which Ben Franklin was very upset about. Nothing new

[Katarina Witt]

They only played the national anthem for a year, anyway.

[mackinac81]

They'e Mennonites--a group I have a ton of respect for--so there's no surprise here. What I'm shocked about is that they played it for that brief time in the first place.