Link: http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2009/07/civil-religion-and-seventh-inning.html

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

July 8, 2009

Bob Campeau-Laurion was headed for the restroom during the Seventh Inning Stretch at Yankee Stadium when he was grabbed by two police officers and dragged from the game.

Several years ago the Yankees had instituted a custom of performing ?God Bless America? rather than ?Take Me Out to the Ball Game? during the Seventh Inning, and spectators were required to participate. Police and Ushers were instructed not to permit attendees to move from their seats while the music played.

Campeau-Laurion filed a lawsuit contending that his individual rights had been violated. On July 7 the City of New York settled the suit and disavowed the policy of compelled participation in a patriotic observance at Yankee games.

The Yankee organization, like most other major league sports franchises, is not a purely private entity; it profits from huge taxpayer subsidies, making it something of a quasi-governmental entity. So its restrictions on free speech couldn?t be defended as a property rights issue.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.