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...speaker on Buddhism. "I hear people say, 'Isn't it wonderful how we're coming together as a nation?'" observes the Rev. Don Sperber, pastor of the 700-member Grace United Methodist Church in Denver. "I'm troubled when the most common song I hear sung today is God Bless America, and I keep saying, '...as well as the other nations.' I'm not opposed to patriotism, but I'm opposed to having it be blind to the reality of the total world. I've been trying to select hymns that have a more global perspective...
Kincaid drew strong reactions from the audience for her remarks that terrorism and violence are not unique in the world. Referring to the ubiquitous slogan “God Bless America,” she countered that America is not the only nation that God should bless...
...pinned a picture of her late brother to the back of her T-shirt. Some ran with American flag capes fluttering behind them, and scores of others had adorned their outfits or bodies with stars and stripes. Hundreds of shouting spectators held placards reading “God Bless America” or “WTC, We Will Never Forget.” One fire truck drawn up alongside the course bore a sign, “25,000 Heroes,” which drew an overwhelming response of “You’re the heroes?...
Should we thank President Bush, or perhaps the New York emergency services? Absolutely not. Whatever you may have thought about the government’s response to the tragedy, there is really only one reason why this country is rebounding. God Bless Pontiac...
...First Amendment watchdogs have instead been met with relative silence. "From a community-relations perspective," says Ken Jacobson of the Anti-Defamation League, "this is not the moment to make these issues prominent." The American Civil Liberties Union complained after Breen Elementary School in Rocklin, Calif., posted a "God Bless America" message on a campus marquee, only to be roasted on the letters page of the local paper and likened to the Taliban. "Very few of us want to nitpick what is or isn't legal in this emotional moment," says Charles Haynes of the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center...