The police department for the City of Glencoe, Alabama. The flag on the right is a Christian flag which was removed in late June 2015 after the Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a letter threatening legal action.
Posted on 07/08/2015 9:11:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
An Alabama city has opted to remove a Christian flag from government property following a complaint from a Wisconsin-based atheist organization.
City of Glencoe recently took down a Christian flag which had been put on the grounds of a police department following a letter of complaint sent by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
Tashia Blackerby, spokeswoman for City of Glencoe, told The Christian Post that the FFRF complaint was tied to previous issues the atheist group had with her city.
"We received letters from the [FFRF]. First of all, it was on our manger scene. We had a manger scene at Christmas time," said Blackerby.
"And then it was back-to-back with the Christian flag that we had flying out here in front of the police department."
In February, FFRF staff attorney Andrew Seidel sent a letter of complaint to an attorney representing Glencoe regarding the flag.
"The display of this patently religious symbol on City property confers government endorsement of Christianity," wrote Seidel.
"A majority of federal courts have held displays of Latin crosses on public property to be an unconstitutional endorsement of religion."
Last week Glencoe Mayor Charles Gilchrist announced to local media that the flag was indeed removed from its place on government property.
In an interview with WBRC Fox 6, Mayor Gilchrist explained that the removal was performed to avoid a costly legal battle.
"That would just about ruin us … That's what they do, they pick on these smaller towns that can't defend ourselves," explained Gilchrist.
In a statement released Tuesday, FFFRF co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor declared, "Reason will prevail. In this case, it was so patently obvious why a civil, secular government can't endorse Christianity in this particular way."
Regarding local reaction, Blackerby of City of Glencoe told CP that "the citizens are upset" over the removal of the flag.
PFL
I wake up every day and dread what I’m going to learn that day. It’s always something that really pisses me off and makes me pray for the future of this once proud country.
How about tell people from Wisconsin to go F themselves and stay the hell out of Alabama...
Just for fun, they should replace it with a Confederate flag.
You and me, both. I don’t recognize this country anymore.
Someone should make up an atheist flag just so we can complain. Turn about, fair play.
a group from Wisconsin can tell a city in Alabama to take a flag down.. ? Huh??
FFFRF co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor
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Gaylor?? GAY .. LOR??
Note to police:
You all have a dangerous job and turning your back on God is ill advised, to say the least.
Relying on luck is not a percentage move, if you get my meaning.
Coincidentally, Anne Nicol Gaylor, the woman who founded this atheist organization recently died. She has a long time to reflect on what her organization has wrought and what it continues to do.
I find that athiest to be offensive. Remove him from society: exile.
And yet it’s completely acceptable for cities such as Grand Rapids to light up a bridge with rainbow colors to celebrate the ruling. It’s completely okay for the White House to do the same.
Do atheists have an official flag so we can reciprocate?
Someone whose intellect I respect is Mark Steyn. He’s just done a piece comparing what’s going on here with events in Germany in 1933 — only THIS TIME it won’t JUST BE THE JEWS!
I’ve been trying to hammer this one home for over a year!
And, friends, it’s JUST STARTING!
THIS IS A MUST READ!!!
http://www.steynonline.com/7036/the-stupidity-of-sophisticates
BUMP!
God isn’t on that flag. God is much greater than man’s silly symbols.
If I file a complaint, will they removed the atheist?
“Anne Nicol Gaylor, the woman who founded this atheist organization recently died.”
She’s not an atheist anymore!!! She now knows God is real, as she is enduring her eternal punishment.
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