One thing I see many people are noting and commenting about on Facebook, is the Church covered up all the crosses with flags. While it was probably just aesthetics, it sure did send a message.
From the article, the choir, from the First Baptist Church in Dallas,
performed at the “Celebrate Freedom Rally” Saturday at the Kennedy CenterLast I checked, the Kennedy Center (for the Performing Arts) is in DC. I saw a fine production of Shakespeare's Macbeth there when I was in High School. Outside the church, outside of a church service, any choir is just a group who sing together, under a specific director and name. Some do it better than others.
From that article, this was not held IN a church, the church choir went elsewhere and sang, as a group.
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir used to do this too, iirc, as have other church choirs over the years. Whether those songs in the repertoire so blatantly sucked up to a particular politician is up to the individual to decide, but I don't recall such blatant ass-kissing since "Greensleeves" was on the Program during JFK's administration (It was allegedly his favorite song, although perhaps a little less obvious in catering to a particular ego--I like Greensleeves, too).
Had this been done in the church, with the heraldry of Christ covered by secular heraldry, I would opine an objection which would much more forceful than just noting some brown-nosing.
America
is the greatest nation on Earth, already.
It can be restored to better economics, a great deal can be improved (generally by removing the burdens, roadblocks, and regulatory impediments of government as practiced and returning to our Constitutional roots), by government relinquishing the stranglehold it has on far too many aspects of our everyday lives. But we retain the capability to do all those things, including removing those governmental fetters, whether we have the political will and personal gumption to accomplish them or not. That's what makes America Great.
If it makes folks
feel better, sing away.
