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Related: About this forumNorth Carolina Pastor Flies Christian Flag Above American Flag To Protest Gay Marriage
?zoom=1.5&resize=480%2C258The flag wars in the United States look poised to continue.
In the wake of conversation and consternation over the presence and placement of the Confederate battle flag and the gay pride rainbow flag, a Southern pastor is eager to ignite a new conflagration over the Christian flag.
Pastor Rit Varriale of Elizabeth Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina is calling on Christians to fly the Christian flag (at top) above the American flag in defiance of the US Supreme Courts ruling on same-sex marriage.
RawStory reports:
We hope congregations all across the U.S. will join us on this, Varriale said. And prayerfully it will sweep across our country as a message to congregations to reevaluate our priorities. We serve God first.
If you already have a flag pole at your campus, go ahead and flip that order around. Start putting the Christian flag above the American flag, the pastor recommended. If you dont have a flagpole we didnt have a flagpole get one, put those flags up there, and demonstrate to everybody that drives by youre a congregation thats committed to God first.
Varriale told the Baptist Press that U.S. flag etiquette was completely improper.
We should be flying the Christian flag above the American flag as a demonstration that Christians will respect and obey the federal government up to the point that the government asks something that is inconsistent with what God has called His people to do, he opined.
If you already have a flag pole at your campus, go ahead and flip that order around. Start putting the Christian flag above the American flag, the pastor recommended. If you dont have a flagpole we didnt have a flagpole get one, put those flags up there, and demonstrate to everybody that drives by youre a congregation thats committed to God first.
Varriale told the Baptist Press that U.S. flag etiquette was completely improper.
We should be flying the Christian flag above the American flag as a demonstration that Christians will respect and obey the federal government up to the point that the government asks something that is inconsistent with what God has called His people to do, he opined.
Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2015/07/anti-gay-north-carolina-pastor-flies-christian-flag-above-american-american-flag-in-defiance-of-same-sex-marriage-video/
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North Carolina Pastor Flies Christian Flag Above American Flag To Protest Gay Marriage (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Jul 2015
OP
Will respect the govt up until it is inconvenient not to. You are not an American, motherfucker
randys1
Jul 2015
#1
And then a LGBTQ X-tian will one up him by flying the rainbow flag above the X-tian flag =P
LostOne4Ever
Jul 2015
#4
randys1
(16,286 posts)1. Will respect the govt up until it is inconvenient not to. You are not an American, motherfucker
shenmue
(38,506 posts)2. Let him try that on a military base
Chickenshit.
marym625
(17,997 posts)3. tax them
LostOne4Ever
(9,289 posts)4. And then a LGBTQ X-tian will one up him by flying the rainbow flag above the X-tian flag =P
[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal] Or maybe an atheist braver than me could fly an null-set flag or AA flag above the christian flag [/font]
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)5. Christians have a flag?
TexasTowelie
(112,217 posts)6. Just like ISIS has one.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)7. ISIS is not a religion! Though Muslims do have a flag and that ain't it.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)8. The rainbow flag maybe?
I saw several Christian communities partcipating in pride parades; some of them were carrying rainbow flags...
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nightscanner59
(802 posts)10. I'm sure Shirley Phelps Roper approves.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jesus_lover_of_my_soul/2750305828
Oh, sorry, wrong picture but... same persona.
Oh, sorry, wrong picture but... same persona.
Initech
(100,079 posts)11. As George Carlin put it - "symbols for the symbol minded."
I_Like_Hammers
(30 posts)12. Such amazing immaturity
All because something good FINALLY happened to some gay people they'll never meet. Self-proclaimed "Christians" are so pampered and privileged that they can't handle something good happening to people they'll never meet, never know, never even come in contact with, without SCREAMING "persecution." It's truly PATHETIC.