If you don't believe in god....

[ijack]

Yes

[Deleted]

Yes.

[claireblue]

Yes. Why not just sing the national anthem?

[Deleted]

Only if it was a public league through my city.

Private league, eh. they can say what they want.

[SallyJ]

Yes.

[rex]

Yes.

The part about playing fair is great, but let's leave god out of this.

[heygrey]

i played little league for 7-8 years and i never said this once. weird.

[EllieArroway]

Yeah, if it's public that bothers me. I side eye the first three lines, actually, and not just the first. What does my country & it's laws have to do with little league ball?

[cjeanette]

Yes

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[Deleted]

Yes.

And I would probably find another league or another sport.

But I also refused to say the pledge of allegiance in school.

[statlerwaldorf]

Yes.

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May 16, 2012 18:39:04 GMT -5 @jimbooo said:

May 16, 2012 18:35:40 GMT -5 @flamingostalker said:

I would not be happy about it.

At school, we do the Pledge of Allegiance every day and it mentions god. I tell my students that they do not have to recite it, but they need to be quiet and respectful of it and their classmates who do recite it. Is that an option for you? Just have your child be quiet and not recite it?

We haven't actually ran into this issue yet. However I received some paperwork that states it is "required". I highly doubt they'd really care if a child chose to stand quietly with a smile and not recite it, but I think it's kind of crazy they'd write that it's "required" in the paperwork that has to be signed.

It was "required" in my HS, but the social studies department (government teachers in particular) started posting posters/flyers on their doors saying that we couldn't be made to say it. We were also encouraged to omit the "under god" portion as it was added later.

[sporky]

i would absolutely have a problem with that.

[Deleted]

Yep.

[UMaineTeach]

I'm a bit confused. I tried researching little league and found:

www.littleleague.org/media/Trademark_Protection.htm
Little League Baseball is a Federal Incorporation granted a bill signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 17, 1964, and amended September 24, 1974, to reflect the admission of girls. The legislation, which received unanimous approval from both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, is Public Law 88-378. It is the highest recognition that the federal government can accord. It provides for incorporation of Little League Baseball in all 50 states as an educational institution, endowing the program with protective integrity by the U.S. Government.

Action of the President and Congress places Little League Baseball in the same category as Red Cross, Boy Scouts, Boys Clubs of America and a select group of other agencies similarly chartered. However, Little League is the only youth sports organization so honored. The Federal Charter of Incorporation requires Little League to submit its annual report directly to the U.S. Congress each year.

“LITTLE LEAGUE,” “LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL,” “LITTLE LEAGUER,” “LL,” “DUGOUT,” “CHALLENGER DIVISION,” the OFFICIAL LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL EMBLEMS, etc., are the principal registered trademarks and service marks of Little League Baseball, Incorporated. These marks are protected both by a special Act of Congress and registrations with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. All rights in and to any and all marks of Little League Baseball, Incorporated, are reserved.

NOTE: Little League Baseball is listed in the current issue of the Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual. The words “Little League,” “Little Leaguer,” etc. should only be used in conjunction with baseball and softball programs associated with Little League Baseball, Incorporated.



now, the first paragraph makes it seem clearly a federal program - like Head Start or Medicare.

but the second drags in Red Cross and Boy Scouts that I thought were private organizations.

I need someone who speaks lawyer.