Post by Guadalupe on Nov 16, 2017 11:38:15 GMT -5
An atheist group’s demand to get rid of a Christian flag on a public school campus flagpole was defied by Texas high school students, who flew the flag with a message that was loud and clear.
After the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) discovered that the “Come and Take It Flag” – donning a Christian cross that was flown during the Texas Revolution – was hanging from a flagpole at LaPoynor High School, it ordered the school district to remove it.
Outsmarted by students
This move only motivated students to fly the flag all the more, as they moved it right in front of their high school – just outside of the campus boundaries.
"This has nothing to do with the community or the school board – or anything like that," LaPoyor High School senior Sarah Barnes insisted to East Texas Matters (ETM). "It's us students – it's whatever we want to put up."
She said that the students claimed victory in the matter over FFRF in more ways than one.
"Actually, we put two more flags on poles that aren't on school property over there, and now the kids are flying them on their trucks," Barnes added.link