Vets stand guard over Christian flag in NC town

Yahoo News ^ | Thursday, October 21 | Tom Breen

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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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I’m certain that the ACLU is racing to the aid of this veteran.

[J Edgar]

Time to replace the whole city council! JMHO

[J Edgar]

Time to replace the whole city council! JMHO

[Humal]

Good for them!!!!

[buschbaby]

It’s great to see people fighting back. We need more of this.

[PGR88]

Why is the ACLU automatically quoted in these situations?

Have they become a 4th arm of Govt?

[South40]

Interesting story. Thanks for posting!

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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.

[DirtyHarryY2K]

Why is this in the general-chat section? It doesn't qualify as news?

[rockrr]

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....;-)

[rockrr]

Dixie ping

(I don’t know if there is a North Carolina pinglist)

[stainlessbanner]

Sound familiar folks?

[chesley]

The ACLU has always been a far-left organization.

[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?

[Gritty]

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