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

[Eleanor Braun]

 Not exactly, Roger.  Since we don’t have a state church, a service even at
the so-called National Cathedral is a private religious service. I think at
a service like this the clergy are aware most people there are not
Episcopalians, so they minimize the denominational signs.

Eleanor

On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 5:52 PM Roger Stokes via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>