Fussing about flags in Sunday service is a little bit like 'take your government hands off my medicare'. In other words, there are larger problems here that we've acquiesced to already, and folks are just battling about where the appropriate boundaries are.
No one country holds a special place in God's heart. Neither does any one day. But go ahead, take the red, white and blue idols out of your tax-exempt once-a-week church building. More power to ya...
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well, uh.... hmmm, er I mean, well, but, umph, doh!
You're welcome. ;-)
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