Preacher destroys Nike gear during services

Jim
Society & Culture
Nike
Colin Kaepernick
Weird

An Alabama reverend has cut up a Nike headband and wristband before his congregation to protest the company partnering with former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Al.com reports the Rev. Mack Morris also told his Mobile congregation Sunday that he had bought his last pair of Nikes. Morris says his actions are in protest to the apparel company’s advertising campaign that features Kaepernick, who knelt during the national anthem at football games to protest police brutality.

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bob rogish
Thu, 09/13/18 10:13 am

I appreciate those who stand for what is right and decent. As an undershepherd, I have all the authority I need to break open the Word of Life and feed God’s sheep. This does not fall into my wheelhouse.

Bob Rogish

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TylerR
Thu, 09/13/18 10:22 am

What an idiot. Ironically, my glasses I’m using to read all this right now have Nike frames …

Tyler is a pastor in Olympia, WA and works in State government.

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Ron Bean
Thu, 09/13/18 10:31 am

This is just another example of what happens when social issues get more attention than the Gospel.

(Putting on my helmet.)

"Some things are of that nature as to make one's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache." John Bunyan

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Bert Perry
Thu, 09/13/18 11:35 am

I’ve learned that if I wear Nike gear, nobody bats an eye if I don’t stand for the national anthem. j/k

Seriously, since the swoosh is advertising for them, I can see defacing the logo or donating the items to charity, but destroying it goes a bit far. Then to do so in a sermon? Um, no.

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.

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Jim Barnes
Thu, 09/13/18 4:26 pm

Stupidity in the pulpit.