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Vets stand guard over Christian flag in NC town
Yahoo News ^
| Thursday, October 21
| Tom Breen
Posted on 10/21/2010 8:06:29 PM PDT by rockrr
KING, N.C. The Christian flag is everywhere in the small city of King: flying in front of barbecue joints and hair salons, stuck to the bumpers of trucks, hanging in windows and emblazoned on T-shirts.
The relatively obscure emblem has become omnipresent because of one place it can't appear: flying above a war memorial in a public park.
The city council decided last month to remove the flag from above the monument in Central Park after a resident complained, and after city leaders got letters from the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State urging them to remove it.
That decision incensed veterans groups, churches and others in King, a city of about 6,000 people 15 miles north of Winston-Salem. Ray Martini, 63, an Air Force veteran who served in Vietnam, launched a round-the-clock vigil to guard a replica Christian flag hanging on a wooden pole in front of the war memorial.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Religion
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; aclu; churchandstate; flag; freedomofreligion; moralabsolutes; nochristians; southern; waronchristianity
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posted on
10/21/2010 8:06:32 PM PDT
by
rockrr
To: rockrr
I’m certain that the ACLU is racing to the aid of this veteran.
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posted on
10/21/2010 8:07:40 PM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now)
To: rockrr
Time to replace the whole city council! JMHO
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posted on
10/21/2010 8:17:11 PM PDT
by
J Edgar
To: rockrr
Time to replace the whole city council! JMHO
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posted on
10/21/2010 8:17:24 PM PDT
by
J Edgar
To: rockrr
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posted on
10/21/2010 9:27:37 PM PDT
by
Humal
To: rockrr
It’s great to see people fighting back. We need more of this.
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posted on
10/21/2010 10:15:26 PM PDT
by
buschbaby
(Beware! Momma Bear on the prowl. Grrrr)
To: rockrr
Why is the ACLU automatically quoted in these situations?
Have they become a 4th arm of Govt?
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posted on
10/21/2010 10:59:34 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: rockrr
Interesting story. Thanks for posting!
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posted on
10/22/2010 12:58:40 AM PDT
by
South40
(Spread my work ethic not my wealth!)
To: rockrr
The Christian flag is everywhere in the small city of King: flying in front of barbecue joints and hair salons, stuck to the bumpers of trucks, hanging in windows and emblazoned on T-shirts. Sacred T-shirts and holy barbecue. Yum, yum.
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posted on
10/22/2010 4:11:07 AM PDT
by
Non-Sequitur
(Hey mo-joe! Here's another one for your collection.)
To: rockrr
Why is this in the general-chat section? It doesn't qualify as news?
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posted on
10/22/2010 4:20:00 AM PDT
by
DirtyHarryY2K
(The Tree of Liberty is long overdue for its natural manure)
To: PGR88
It's a measure of how institutionalized the ACLU has become.
Once upon a time they were the "champions" of defense of citizen rights. Then they decided to specialize in leftist citizen rights defense.
They still do some good....every once in a while....however inadvertently....;-)
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posted on
10/22/2010 7:56:55 AM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now)
To: stainlessbanner
Dixie ping
(I don’t know if there is a North Carolina pinglist)
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posted on
10/22/2010 7:58:53 AM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now)
To: bamahead; manc; GOP_Raider; TenthAmendmentChampion; snuffy smiff; slow5poh; EdReform; TheZMan; ...
To: rockrr
The ACLU has always been a far-left organization.
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posted on
10/22/2010 9:59:23 AM PDT
by
chesley
(Eat what you want, and die like a man.)
To: rockrr
I'm surprised and a little disappointed in the lack of interest in this story. FReepers usually aren't so complacent when local traditions and civil liberties are trampled. I've seen FReepers boiling mad when they hoisted a mexican flag over the Stars & Stripes. The response is positively Pavlovian if anyone suggests that a confederate flag be lowered. North Carolinian's - this is your community!
"We've let our religious freedoms and constitutional rights be stripped away one by one, and I think it's time we took a stand," King resident James Joyce said.
I guess I shouldn't make such a big deal of it - it's only a flag.....right?
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posted on
10/22/2010 11:44:13 AM PDT
by
rockrr
("I said that I was scared of you!" - pokie the pretend cowboy)
To: rockrr
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posted on
10/25/2010 1:24:58 PM PDT
by
Gritty
(Our motto is "Death to America" - Hassan Nasrallah, Hizballah Secretary General)
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