A National Embarrassment in the U.S. Flag Code

The Flag Code has never been interpreted to outlaw murals, stadium paintings, T-shirts, or student artwork depicting Old Glory. AdvertisementThis local episode, however, points to a far larger and more enduring national embarrassment written into the Flag Code, a cancer that has festered within the Code, largely unnoticed by most Americans. AdvertisementWhat is completely unacceptable is that Congress wrote into the United States Flag Code an explicit legal exception that permits the United Nations flag to fly in a position of superior prominence to the American flag. No legal permission of any kind for any flag, and especially not a United Nations flag, to fly higher than the Stars and Stripes. He previously served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney and was a candidate for the United States Senate from North Carolina.