The North Carolina city of King has been in the news over the past few months over its decision to remove a Christian flag from a veteran’s memorial — after a threat of financial ruin from the ACLU.\u00a0 Local citizens subsequently raised their own Christian flag, and then stood guard over it 24\/7.<\/p>\n
King officials, with pro bono assistance from the Alliance Defense Fund,\u00a0recently voted to reinstate the memorial<\/a>…sort of:\u00a0 <\/p>\n The King City Council approved a policy Monday night that eventually would allow a Christian flag to fly again at a memorial at the city\u2019s Central Park as a part of a limited public display of religious flags recognized by the U.S. military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Pop quiz<\/strong>: What “religious flags” are “recognized by the US military?”<\/p>\n To be fair, it appears to be a journalist’s poorly chosen paraphrase<\/a> of the actual “compromise.”\u00a0 It appears flags with religious symbols recognized by the military<\/a> will be permitted.<\/p>\n Still, a similar question:\u00a0 What “religious symbols” are recognized by the military?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The North Carolina city of King has been in the news over the past few months over its decision to remove a Christian flag from a veteran’s memorial — after a threat of financial ruin from the ACLU.\u00a0 Local citizens subsequently raised their own Christian flag, and then stood guard over it 24\/7. King officials, with pro bono assistance from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[12,437,4,1144,1145,2,17,10,1143],"class_list":["post-7980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-aclu","tag-adf","tag-churchandstate","tag-flag","tag-king","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-veterans-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}