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Flag linked to Christian nationalism, Jan. 6 hung at Education Dept.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:28 pm
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:28 pm
Flag linked to Christian nationalism, Jan. 6 hung at Education Dept.
WASHINGTON – A top official at the U.S. Department of Education has been keeping a controversial flag linked to Christian nationalism and the Jan. 6 insurrection hung outside his office, according to the agency's union and a department employee who has observed it.
It's the latest in a series of instances in which the flag – which depicts a pine tree and the words "An Appeal to Heaven" – has been associated with agencies and figures at the highest levels of the federal government.
Though long tied to the American Revolution, the banner in more recent years "has been adopted primarily by evangelical Christian nationalist groups," as well as the Proud Boys and certain neo-Nazi groups, according to the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, an independent nonprofit organization. It was flown in 2021 by rioters at the U.S. Capitol as they tried to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election results.
The symbol's emergence at the agency responsible for overseeing billions of dollars in federal funding for the nation's schools is already raising concerns about the separation of church and state.
Rachel Gittleman, the president of the union for Education Department workers nationwide, said in a statement that the agency "has no place for symbols that were carried by insurrectionists."
“Since January, hardworking public servants at the U.S. Department of Education have been subjected to threats, harassment, and sustained demoralization," she said. "Now, they are being asked to work in an environment where a senior leader is prominently displaying an offensive flag – one that, regardless of its origins in the American Revolution, has come to represent intolerance, hatred, and extremism."
In a statement to USA TODAY, the Education Department did not confirm the flag's existence or address concerns related to its ties to extremist ideology.
"As usual, union members are more concerned about imagined grievances and silly political fights than the abysmal test scores of our nation’s students," said Madi Biedermann, the deputy assistant secretary for communications.
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:31 pm to djmed
Can someone provide the necessary qualifications to be considered a Christian Nationalist?
I mean, based on the way groups are being separated out and the results of said groups, this one might not be too bad.
I mean, based on the way groups are being separated out and the results of said groups, this one might not be too bad.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:33 pm to djmed
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U.S. Department of Education
Shut it down.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:36 pm to djmed
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Rachel Gittleman, the president of the union for Education Department workers nationwide, said in a statement that the agency "has no place for symbols that were carried by insurrectionists."
Insurrectionists? Like people from the original 13 colonies?
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:38 pm to djmed
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"As usual, union members are more concerned about imagined grievances and silly political fights than the abysmal test scores of our nation’s students," said Madi Biedermann, the deputy assistant secretary for communications.
Madi sounds like they actually have some sense.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:40 pm to Snipe
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Can someone provide the necessary qualifications to be considered a Christian Nationalist?
A nationalist who wants Christianity to influence government policy. Not a theocracy, but policy rooted in Christian ideals
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:45 pm to GeauxBurrow312
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A nationalist who wants Christianity to influence government policy. Not a theocracy, but policy rooted in Christian ideals
Sounds like we should give that a try because what we have now is shite and getting worse every day.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:46 pm to djmed
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Appeal To Heaven is an expression of the right of revolution used by philosopher John Locke's in Second Treatise on Civil Government refuting the theory of the divine right of kings. The Pine Tree symbolizes the American Colonies where the White Pine flourished.
In September 1775, the Americans launched two strong floating batteries on the Charles River, Massachusetts, and in the following month they opened fire on the enemy in Boston.
In October, Washington also commissioned two schooners, the Lynch and the Franklin, to cruise the Bay. When speaking of these schooners, Col. Joseph Reed, Washington's secretary, in a letter from Cambridge, Mass. to Colonels Glover and Moyland, dated October 20, 1775, said "Please fix upon some particular color for a flag, and a signal by which our vessels may know one another. What do you think of a flag with a white ground and a tree in the middle, the motto 'AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN' - this is the flag of our floating batteries."
By February 1, 1776 a total of six such "armed Vessels" of the "United Colonies of North America" had been commissioned by Washington...
In April 1776, the Massachusetts council passed a series of resolutions for the regulation of the sea service, among which was the following: - "Resolved, that the uniform of the officers be green and white, and that the colors be a white flag, with a green pine tree, and the inscription, 'An Appeal to Heaven'."
Leftists hate our country all the way to our beginning
This post was edited on 12/16/25 at 2:50 pm
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:47 pm to djmed
People are really still talking about the Appeal to Heaven flag?
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:52 pm to djmed
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Rachel Gittleman, the president of the union for Education Department workers nationwide, said in a statement that the agency "has no place for symbols that were carried by insurrectionists."
George Washington says frick you.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:53 pm to 4x4tiger
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Appeal To Heaven is an expression of the right of revolution used by philosopher John Locke's in Second Treatise on Civil Government
Just to put this in perspective, the most important document in US history is the Declaration of Independence. It was written by Thomas Jefferson, and the greatest influence on this document was Locke's Second Treatise.
And now a flag that symbolizes one of the tenets of that treatise is "controversial".
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:54 pm to GeauxBurrow312
quote:For the first 2 centuries that WAS the inherent definition of the American culture. Not mandated, just lived by the overwhelming majority of the American people.
policy rooted in Christian ideals
But that was a time when kids could run around all by themselves at will without being subject to being shot or kidnapped => but they had to be back home by supper or they'd have to go to bed hungry.
Yea - we were backward hicks - no cellphones etc.
But we did put men on the moon and invent the computers that made it possible.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:55 pm to GeauxBurrow312
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A nationalist who wants Christianity to influence government policy. Not a theocracy, but policy rooted in Christian ideals
So basically a country that embodies exactly what the founding fathers intended? Got it
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:56 pm to Snipe
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Can someone provide the necessary qualifications to be considered a Christian Nationalist? I mean, based on the way groups are being separated out and the results of said groups, this one might not be too bad.
I’m a Christian and not a globalist. Ergo muh CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST!!!!!!
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:57 pm to djmed
The “Appeal to Heaven” flag makes liberals irrationally angry. I think it’s the fact that it combines both Christianity and America—two things they despise.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 3:00 pm to MC5601
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So basically a country that embodies exactly what the founding fathers intended?
The founding fathers foresaw and planned for a lot but they unfortunately could plan for how ignorant half of the country would become in the name of not hurting some feeling.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 3:12 pm to Snipe
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The founding fathers foresaw and planned for a lot but they unfortunately could plan for how ignorant half of the country would become in the name of not hurting some feeling.
I believe you to be wrong good sir. The founding fathers did foresee this, as they had a large percentage of uneducated in their time. They even tried to account for it. It was not until future Congresses and Presidents passed new voting rights laws that changed the course of the Country forever.
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