With all the talk of the Christian flag being taken down at the Veterans Memorial in King this past week after the King City Council received lawsuit threats from the ACLU, do you know the history of the Christian flag?
Here is the story...
The Christian Flag was first conceived on September 26, 1897, at Brighton Chapel on Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. The superintendent of a Sunday school, Charles C. Overton, was forced to give an impromptu lecture to the gathered students, because the scheduled speaker had failed to arrive for the event. Overton saw a US flag in the front of the chapel and drawing on the US flag for inspiration. He gave a speech asking the students what a flag representing Christianity would look like. Overton thought about his improvised speech for many years afterward. In 1907, he and Ralph Diffendorfer, secretary of the Methodist Young People's Missionary Movement, designed and began promoting the flag.
The symbolism: The Christian flag has a white field, a red ‘Latin’ cross inside a blue square (canton). The red on the cross symbolizes the blood Jesus shed on Calvary, the blue represents the title given to Jesus of King of Kings and the white represents the purity of Jesus.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/asktheexpert/jul13.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Flag
In the News: The King City Council, on the recommendation of the city’s attorney, voted to remove the Christian flag from Veterans Memorial Park after receiving letters from “Americans United for the Separation of Church and State” AND the “ACLU” threatening lawsuits if the flag was not taken down. www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-story-king-christian-flag-100916,0,3610370.story
