Okay, so this is something that’s bugged me for a long time. I took this picture at my church’s INTERNATIONAL headquarters. Why do Christian churches, and institutions insist on flying the Christian flag below the US flag? It’s as if we readily accept our role as chaplain to the state, an unquestioning support system to a pagan nation. We as the church are all to happy to be the “yes man” for America. If we were in prison, I’d use another term for the role the church has resigned itself to. If we’re really an outpost for the Kingdom of God on earth, why fly other flags at all? What’s wrong with just flying the Christian flag? This is just as offensive to me as flying the Christian flag under the North Korean flag, as if the Church was not unlike a county, province or territory under the authority of the larger more important state. Arrrrrrgh, I hate the civil religion!
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Go, Charlie, Preach IT!!!
After hours of surfing the web about this, I have finally found sombody who agrees with me about flying our Christian flag below Old Glory or any other flag. It’s like saying, “One God Under the Nation,” instead of, “One Nation Under God.” Don’t these folks get it? I love my country, but I love God a whole lot more.
Hey Anonymous,
If you like, I can send you a paper I’ve written on the subject.
-Charlie
Charlie,
I borrowed the photo from this post for a thread in NazNet.com. You can read it in the forum “NazNet Community Discussion” under the thread “Flags in Church”
Hal
This is dictated by US law in United States Code Chapter 4, Title 1, Section 7, Part c:
“No other flag or pennant should be placed above or, if on the same level, to the right of the flag of the United States of America, except during church services conducted by naval chaplains at sea, when the church pennant may be flown above the flag during church services for the personnel of the Navy. No person shall display the flag of the United Nations or any other national or international flag equal, above, or in a position of superior prominence or honor to, or in place of, the flag of the United States at any place within the United States or any Territory or possession thereof: Provided, That nothing in this section shall make unlawful the continuance of the practice heretofore followed of displaying the flag of the United Nations in a position of superior prominence or honor, and other national flags in positions of equal prominence or honor, with that of the flag of the United States at the headquarters of the United Nations.”
It is unlawful to fly any flag or pennant, international or otherwise, above or to the right of the United States flag on US soil, other than the two exceptions mentioned above.