A U.S. Air Force sergeant is fighting for his right to express his Christian faith by flying a flag in his front yard after he was forced to take it down.
First Liberty Institute, a faith-based non-profit legal group, has sent a demand letter on behalf of Air Force Technical Sergeant Robert Durrant, who was ordered by an employee at a military base to take down his “Jesus is my King, Trump is my President” flag from his residence.
According to the letter, Durrant and his family moved into their residence on Malmstrom Air Force Base in 2023. Shortly after moving in, he noticed his neighbors displayed a wide variety of flags outside their homes. Some flags represented college and professional sports teams, a state, foreign nations, seasons of the year, support for law enforcement, and “straight ally” LGBTQ pride.
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Durrant first decided to hang “a hybrid US-Israel flag.” While that flag was on display, he never received any notice of lease violation from Balfour Beatty, the housing management group on the base.
Then, in the middle of last year, Durrant removed that flag and replaced it with a flag displaying the words, “Jesus is my King, Trump is my President.”
In September, a Balfour Beatty employee contacted Durrant by phone, ordering him to remove his “Jesus is my King” flag from his property, stating that it violated “all sorts of policies,” First Liberty outlines.
“As a Christian, TSgt Durrant feels compelled by his religious beliefs to display this flag in recognition of a duty to publicly acknowledge Christ’s divine lordship, and as an expression of loyalty to the commander in chief, so he did not want to remove it and asked for the policy or policies in writing,” the demand letter explains.
Durrant also received an email from the housing management alleging a violation of his lease and a second request to remove the flag. In the email, he was told he had 48 hours to comply with the request.
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