LEGAL MINDS NEEDED
I’ve been so disgusted with NFL players kneeling when our national anthem has played that I’ve boycotted most of the season but I wonder can their employee force them to stand under a penalty if they don’t? The constitution allows for all freedom of speech including according to our courts even burning of our flag then should kneeling when our flag is raised be legal as well? Yet if one signs an employee contract that says part of their terms includes respecting the flag by standing how can their be an objection? What if someone suddenly has a religious conversion to a Jehovah Witness should they be let go or penalized for their new found faith? Although I’m not a legal scholar I guess there needs to be a balance of both needs. In that case let those players who have some reason for not wanting to stand for the national anthem wait in the locker rooms until it is sung. I might still object to this protest but at least it meets all legal requirements… I think.