Jazz, I guess that's where we agree and where we differ on the topic. I appreciate that they were able to kneel and pray, I just hope (I don't pray, because I'm an atheist
) that there wasn't any pressure to. Just that it was heartfelt, as any form of spirituality should be.
I, too, believe in the same intent of the separation of church and state. I am saddened that others' beliefs were trampled on, wrongly, in the name of said separation (your football example). But I feel that given the facts, the poem is incredibly misleading... particularly to a misinformed public. This is just, as I feel most propagandist literature, etc is (to the left, the right (neither of which do I feel a part)) meant to persuade a certain segment of a population to feel outrage, and perhaps to act on it by whatever means (and by those means, I don't mean the most fringe means).
More clearly, I don't like this poem because it treats the reader as though they don't know any better... and sadly, many people don't. They don't know their rights any better than when their rights have been trampled upon.