There’s actually an easy way to understand the attempts at a defense these men are making.
at his vacation home on the New Jersey shore last summer, the legal world was confronted with yet another classic case of how to deal with the current warring textual methodologies for interpreting the law. One could either “read” this obscure-to-some pine-tree flag in the way the New York TimesIn the week since, most defenders of the flag have doubled down on the foam-finger defense.
Most commentators understand that flags, like words, have changing meanings over time. “Until about a decade ago,” notes the Times“the Appeal to Heaven flag was mostly a historical relic.” That meaning shifted fairly recently, when it was “revived to represent a theological vision of what the United States should be and how it should be governed,” according to Matthew Taylor, a religionDutch Sheets, a right-wing Christian author and speaker, and a leader in the New Apostolic Reformation.
at the time, Shamp further explained: “Something that has had a particular meaning for 250 years retains its original meaning, no matter which fringe group might seek to co-opt it.” And then she landed, of course, on the old foam-finger defense: “I hope and pray that my fight enjoys a similarly favorable outcome as Washington’s original struggle, and that I will succeed in restoring at least some small measure of liberty before I’m done.
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