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If you are going to demonstrate your convictions about anything, it should be on your own time and not when you are being paid to perform. That's the difference between being a professional and a private citizen.
If you bar for respecting people is them requiring them to give up their first amendment rights than i doubt too many folk will want or care about your respect. [/b]
What in the first amendment gives anyone the right to kneel during the anthem while at work? Have you ever actually read the first amendment? I doubt it.
Rubbish, you view is jingoistic and ultimately flawed. You don't get to put a flag before of the constitution.
There is no requirement to show respect for a flag beyond remaining silent. I saw no right wingers getting upset at people going to the bathroom or buying hotdogs during anthems before this got "Trumped" up. If you bar for respecting people is them requiring them to give up their first amendment rights than i doubt too many folk will want or care about your respect.
What the hell is this jib jab? In plain English... I said you have the right to protest, and I respect that right, but I have no respect for a person that disrespects their country.
I don't think the government should force anyone to stand for the anthem or say the pledge.
However if I was an NFL team owner, or if I was the owner of a private school, then I would require my athletes/students to do so. Freedom of speech only applies to the government. I'm sure if an NFL player even had a Confederate flag flying from his house off the job liberals would demand he be fired from the team. Colin Kaepernick and the other clowns are doing this ON THE JOB.
I don't think the government should force anyone to stand for the anthem or say the pledge.
However if I was an NFL team owner, or if I was the owner of a private school, then I would require my athletes/students to do so. Freedom of speech only applies to the government. I'm sure if an NFL player even had a Confederate flag flying from his house off the job liberals would demand he be fired from the team. Colin Kaepernick and the other clowns are doing this ON THE JOB.
Good post.
I wonder how long the NFL would tolerate fans bringing Nazi flags into the stadium.
But this issue is not about the First Amendment. It's about employee / employer relations and marketing an entertainment product.
How about get to work on time? Should you be forced to get to work on time?
That is a pretty silly analogy.
My take on this whole question is - should the government force you to stand. If your employer forces you to stand that is on them. They can do what they like and you are free to quit. Trump should not be weighing in on this telling employers what to do.
Yes. one. Most appropriate one I have ever attended.........The father of the deceased {good friend of mine KIA in Vietnam at age 18} told me John would not have wanted us to stand around and grieve......but want us to celebrate his short life...........and that we did.......
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