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The Wren Cross -- Military Version.

By Eric Muller

Navy cadets insist on dipping the U.S. flag as it passes before a statue of Jesus at the Naval Academy Chapel. The Academy's superintendent questioned the practice and it briefly stopped, but now it has resumed, apparently with the consent of the superintendent. Anyone who thinks that William & Mary's Wren Chapel Cross controversy was merely the result of a breach of etiquette by its then-president Gene Nichol, or an "absence of deliberation" on his part, is fooling himself.

Full post as published by Is That Legal on March 08, 2008 (boomark / email).