Apparently a house bill to protect student’s rights to wear and wave ol’Glory is in the works.
Representative Walter Jones of North Carolina (3rd District) has introduced HR 5255, the American Flag Display Protection Act. Under the bill, schools that do not protect the right of a student to respectfully display the flag could lose federal funding. “The most important symbol of any nation is the national flag,” Jones said in introducing the bill. “Since ancient times, flags or banners have served to identify and unify groups of people, especially in times of war.”
According to Jones, a constituent in his district had asked him to draft a measure in response to illegal immigrants waving Mexican flags in American streets — and a Colorado school suspending several students for wearing U.S. Marine T-shirts or shirts with U.S. flags.
Jones says he sees a real need for this legislation. “I think that this country is in so much trouble from the illegal immigration to the attack on religious freedom in this country that I just felt that this was the right thing to do,” Jones shares.
Supporting these rights comes with some teeth.
HR 5255 would prohibit a school from receiving federal grants or contracts if it has a policy or practice that infringes on the rights of its students to display or wear the American flag in a respectful manner.
This is in response to reports that some American students, in response to the illegals, have worn ol’Glory and were told they couldn’t because it was flaunting the American flag in front of Mexican students. But I wonder what they thought happened when the flew the American flag upside down under the Mexican flag. But we live in an unpside down world right now. If anyone has more on this, please post comments.
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