Army dad ordered to remove Tibetan prayer flags from home

Would your neighbors balk if you hung prayer flags outside your home?

By Danny Fisher

The Hudson Star Observer reports that the Lighthouse Villas Homeowners Association in Hudson, WI, has sent a letter ordering Don Chering to remove Tibetan prayer flags from the front of his home by the end of this month. Chering, a practicing Buddhist, is refusing to remove the flags, which he first hung on November 9th of last year, after his son Aaron left for basic training in the U.S. Army.

He says of his neighborhood, "We're a community, and they want to homogenize everybody. We live side-by-side as Christians and Buddhists. Outside are Christmas lights, prayer flags and an American flag. That's how we should be living in this country. That's what our founding fathers intended for us. We shouldn't be pushing each other around. We shouldn't be forcing our beliefs on other people. And we sure as heck shouldn't be stopping other people from practicing their beliefs respectfully — in a way that doesn't hurt anybody." Read the whole story here.

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