The American Flag and God

Recently on Capitol Hill there has been a question on whether a practice is breaking separation from Church and State. There are about 100,000 requests to fly the flag on top of the Capitol building for political significance every year. In August, a 17 year old wrote his congressman to ask to fly the American flag at a certain time to "honor his grandfather and his 'love of God, country and family'" (Neuman). The architect of the Capitol was very angry that this boy would make such a religious dedication for the Capitol. In fact, the architect failed to provide the dedication because he said that dedications would not occur if there was a political or religous message. The architect was afraid that boy using this dedication it would ruin separation of Church and State. However, people have called for the architect's decision to be overturned and is now in Congress, 160 members have signed on as of today.

I believe that what the architect at the Capitol did was ridiculous. I agree with Rep. Nuergebauer who said "This is a case of political correctness run amok," wrote Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas). "The government is not imposing 'God' on flag certificates. Rather, it is the request of the taxpayer who wants to mark a special occasion with the honor of a flag flown over the world's symbol of democracy" (Neuman). What the seventeen year old and many others wanted was to honor someone or something with the American flag, not a cross. However, it was these people's decision to put God in the flag certificates because that is some thing that those people believe in. These people are not trying to impose God on anyone or to bring relgion into the government, they are just trying to fly the true symbol of freedom. What do you think?

Here is the article from the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-god11oct11,1,2646998.story?coll=la-news-politics-national