Posted on 08/08/2019 11:36:27 AM PDT by jazusamo
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday a Pennsylvania county's 70-year-old seal and flag is allowed to remain after being targeted by the Freedom From Religion Foundation .
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia ruled 3-0 Thursday that after the Supreme Court upheld the Bladensburg "Peace Cross" war memorial in June as a historic monument, the Lehigh County can maintain its seal as a symbol that “has become part of the community.”
The seal and flag feature grain silos, the Liberty Bell, a heart, among other items. But it was the cross at the center of the seal that the Wisconsin-based group had a problem with. FFRF sued the county in 2016 to get the cross removed.
A federal judge ruled in FFRF's favor in 2017 based on the Lemon test from the Supreme Court case, Lemon v. Kurtzman, requiring courts to decide whether the government is trying to "endorse" religion with a mention of God or religion, something the court has moved away from since the June decision by the Supreme Court.
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Not only that, it has the rattlesnake TEA PARTY symbol and the initials of a MILITIA which stand for "Independent Battalion, Westmoreland County Pennsylvania.
But, wait, it gets worse! We gave Trump roughly 130% of the vote margin with which he carried Pennsylvania and put Trump over 270!
Three crosses, a MILITIA and a TEA PARTY symbol . . . and a voting record. Can anybody do better than that?
That’s a bad a$$ flag!!
I grew up in Westmoreland County, my father was a solicitor for the county and I never saw that flag.
What does ‘I B W P C’ stand for?
Uhm, it’s right in the article’s TITLE that it’s a county flag...
Some in the local historical society argue it is supposed to be a 1, which stands for 1st battalion. This is sort of the unofficial flag of the country. I am not sure if we have an official flag.
It is also known as the Proctor Flag, named after John Proctor, who raised the battalion to fight in the revolution. Another bit of Westmoreland County trivia is that Arthur St. Clair, revolutionary war general and one of the last presidents of the Continental Congress, is buried here.
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