{"id":163,"date":"2010-06-14T13:37:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T13:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/flag-day-still-under-god.html"},"modified":"2010-06-14T13:37:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T13:37:17","slug":"flag-day-still-under-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/flag-day-still-under-god.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Flag Day, Still &#8216;Under God&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is America&#8217;s Flag Day, part of the&nbsp;presidentially proclaimed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/presidential-proclamation-flag-day-and-national-flag-week\">Flag Week<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t sure whether to post about this. For starters, isn&#8217;t every day basically Flag Day &#8211; especially at a time of war and&nbsp;when a big sporting event, like the World Cup soccer tournament, is going on? Maybe it depends on what part of the country&nbsp;and\/or world&nbsp;you live in?<\/p>\n<p>But, there are some faith-related discussions going on that I found interesting, regarding church-state separation, the&nbsp;recently upheld<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpr.org\/news\/2010\/03\/12\/fed-appeals-court-upholds-under-god-pledge\/\"> &#8220;under God&#8221; addition to&nbsp;the Pledge of Allegiance<\/a>,&nbsp;and how religious affiliation factors into ethnic and national identity, patriotism and politics in general. A few examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/billtammeus.typepad.com\/my_weblog\/2010\/06\/61410.html\">Flag Day allegiances <\/a>(Faith Matters)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/communitynews\/2010\/06\/happy-flag-day.html\">Happy Flag Day <\/a>(Beliefnet)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestarpress.com\/article\/20100614\/OPINION\/6140302\">Flag Day OK, allegiance not so much <\/a>(Muncie Star Press)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/churchvstate.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/flag-day-prayer.html\">Flag Day Prayer <\/a>(First Amendment Religion Clauses)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2010\/06\/13\/flag_daze\/\">Flag Daze: What is the Tea Party waving, exactly?<\/a> (Boston Globe)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check back for updates, and share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is America&#8217;s Flag Day, part of the&nbsp;presidentially proclaimed Flag Week. I wasn&#8217;t sure whether to post about this. For starters, isn&#8217;t every day basically Flag Day &#8211; especially at a time of war and&nbsp;when a big sporting event, like the World Cup soccer tournament, is going on? Maybe it depends on what part of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Happy Flag Day, Still &#039;Under God&#039; - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/flag-day-still-under-god.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Happy Flag Day, Still &#039;Under God&#039; - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today is America&#8217;s Flag Day, part of the&nbsp;presidentially proclaimed Flag Week. 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