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A Christian Minister Opposes 'God Bless America'

If you were a Christian minister who was given the opportunity to write an op-ed piece for the Washington Post, what subject would you choose? War and peace? The decline in faith among America's young people? The increasingly empty pews in mainstream Protestant churches? The ethical decline in society? Or any of myriad other morally and religiously troubling issues?

Well, not if you were a Methodist minister named James P. Marsh, Jr.

For this man of the cloth, the issue troubling him so much that he had to write about in the Washington Post was ... People standing and singing "God Bless America" At Washington National baseball games. Ref. Dennis Prager

America Bless God

Interesting. I was never a fan of singing patriotic songs in sporting events. I know a lot of people disagree with me but I don't think this sort of songs have any place in a baseball or football match.