[Magdalen] Funeral Service at Saint Martin's, Houston.

[Roger Stokes]

On 21/04/2018 19:17, Eleanor Braun wrote:
> Well it pretty much followed the BCP Rite 1 burial service.
>
> A tiny detail that threw me off....in the retiring procession both the US
> flag and the Texas flag were carried, but not the Episcopal flag. I've
> never seen a state flag in procession, and these days very rarely the US
> flag.

In essence it was a state occasion even though it was a church service. 
For the Episcopal flag to have been carried in that context could have 
been seen as unconstitutional since it might have been interpreted as 
breaching the Church-state divide.

Roger