“A vicar has been warned by council officials about flying a flag depicting Jesus Christ outside his church because it was deemed to be ‘religious advertising,’ ” The Daily Telegraph reports. “Rev. Mark Binney, vicar of St. Andrew’s Church, Hampton, Worcestershire, said he had been told he needed planning permission if he wanted to fly a flag ‘advertising Christianity’ in future. … Mr. Binney said the warning was ‘appalling,’ and he felt it was part of a gradual erosion of Christianity in Britain. … A spokesman [for the council] said flags other than national flags, county flags, or flags for patron saints, required advertisement consent if they were flown from a vertical freestanding flagpole.”
As I re-position the flags outside the church today, I'll say a prayer of thanksgiving that we don't live in England.
