re: NFL players can be fined for church attendance

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FFS - the NFL is 100% in the public space - public airways, public infrastructure - IN NO WAY can an employer with such access prohibit the free exercise of religion, legally.

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Stadiums built and maintained with public funds.
I agree the public/private lines are very blurry with organizations like the NFL.
1st amendment applies here, IMO, until they stop accepting public funds

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I mean, if I pay you not to go to church, you sort of need to not go to church to get the money.

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So, I must assume that, in your world, "reasonable accomodation" only applies to Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and pagans, then?

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Kind of like CNN paying their "journalists" to regurgitate the term "peaceful protesters" 300 times a day. I mean, that's what they're getting paid to do, right?

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I doubt there is language in any of CNN's reporters' contracts that requires them to use those specific words and given there is specific language in the NFL's deal with players prohibiting being in certain kinds of crowds, I would say this is different. That said, if CNN felt like requiring its reporters to say that phrase and the reporters signed a contract agreeing to those terms, then it would be equally legal as the contract the players signed here.

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I mean, if I pay you not to go to church, you sort of need to not go to church to get the money.

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What if they looked at statistics and determined that the gay lifestyle comes with inordinate health risks. Could they forbid that? If they paid them not to be gay you'd be cool with it?

What would you all have said if I told you back in the year 2000 - that in the year 2020, the NFL would be fining players for attending church while also encouraging protests during the national anthem?

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Players cannot attend indoor night clubs, indoor bars (except to pickup food), indoor house parties (with 15 or more people), indoor concerts, professional sporting events, or indoor church services that allow attendance above 25 percent of capacity

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Is Black Lives Matter Protest on the list?

The Left has so underestimated religious people to their own detriment. I’m not just talking about evangelicals: I’m saying just casually religious people like me, and maybe even hardcore atheists who deeply care about civil liberties. And I don’t care what religion: Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist or even Scientologist wackjobs. There is now only one acceptable religion in this country that you can celebrate: intersectionality. That is the only religion that has not been shat upon these past few months.

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But they can still go to Sam's, Costco, BLM rallies, etc.?

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I dunno. For all we know the players prioritized access to membership-only wholesale clubs and rallies in the negotiation of the contract to which they recently agreed. What did the language in the contract to which they agreed say?