City Removes Christian Flag From Veterans Memorial

On the advice of its city attorney, King City, North Carolina's city council voted 3-1 on Monday to remove a Christian flag that had flown at the city's veterans' memorial along with the U.S., state, city and other flags. According to today's Winston-Salem Journal, the decision reverses an August city council vote to keep the flag, which carried a Latin cross inside a blue canton on a white field. Council member Wesley Canton who was the one negative vote on Monday complained: "We cannot let the threat of a lawsuit stand in the way of our religious freedom."