The Star Spangled Banner (on a pipe organ)

[Jokerman]

We attended the wedding ceremony for the daughter of a co-worker last Saturday. This was a "Christian Covenant Marriage" so, as expected, God & Jesus were the real stars of the event. The happy couple were there, and they were mentioned a couple of times in passing near the end, but this ceremony was clearly about God.

It was held in one of those big, old inner city churches with a magnificent pipe organ. What really creeped me out though was that just before the wedding started and again right after, the organist played the national anthem.

Something about hearing the Star Spangled Banner being played at a church, on a pipe organ, before and after a wedding ceremony just seemed wrong.

Is this common practice or is this just another sign from the fundies that they run the country now and the rest of us better get used to God n' Country all rolled up as one?

[CO Liberal]

1. Did Anyone Yell "PLAY BALL"????

:-)

[tyedyeto]

2. LOL...or play 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame' ...

when the preacher says.......

'Does anyone object.....?'

[Jokerman]

3. No, but I was tempted to take a seventh inning stretch.

Somewhere between the lords prayer & the closing benediction.

[tjwmason]

4. Most English churches have God Save the Queen

On Remembrance Sunday - our national anthem is at least explicitly religious.

I also know that the S.S.B. is in the official hymnal of the Episcopal Church.

Putting it at a wedding seems most bizzare, I do remember G.S.t.Q. at the wedding of the Earl and Countess of Wessex - but the Queen was there and it was her son.

Remember that the fundy trinity is not Father, Son and Holy Ghost - but rather God, money and America.