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Wow, patriotism is a sin?

I wonder if the Founding Fathers ever thought they should have protected our right to display an American flag by putting it into writing.

Any bets that no one would have dared complain if this woman had decided to hang a gay rights flag instead of the always-evil and ever-dreaded American flag? It's such a symbol of tyranny and opression wherever you go!

I humbly submit that if having an American flag offends you so much, you go back to wherever you came from, or take the first flight out of the US.

What next?

Nevermind, I don't think I want to know. *headhands*

Woman Upset After American Flag Taken Down At Work

MANSFIELD (CBS 11 News)

Is it okay to show your patriotism at the office?

For one Arlington woman, the answer was "no" after she hung an American flag in her office just before the Memorial Day weekend.

Debbie McLucas is one of four hospital supervisors at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield. Last week, she hung a three-by-five foot American flag in the office she shares with the other supervisors.

When McLucas came to work Friday, her boss told her another supervisor had found her flag offensive. "I was just totally speechless. I was like, 'You're kidding me,'" McLucas said.

McLucas' husband and sons are former military men. Her daughter is currently serving in Iraq as a combat medic.

Stifling a cry, McLucas said, "I just wonder if all those young men and women over there are really doing this for nothing."

McLucas said the supervisor who complained has been in the United States for 14 years and is formerly from Africa. McLucas said that supervisor took down the flag herself.

"The flag and the pole had been placed on the floor," McLucas said. But McLucas also said hospital higher-ups had told her some patients' families and visitors had also complained.

"I was told it wouldn't matter if it was only one person," she said. "It would have to come down."

McLucas said hospital bosses told her as far as patriotism was concerned, the flag flying outside the hospital building would have to suffice.

"I find it very frightening because if I can't display my flag," McLucas asked, "whatother freedoms will I lose before all is said and done?"