Amid the hysteria over the Confederate flag on public property from Texas to North Carolina, an Alabama town has removed the Christian flag after threats from an atheist group.

Glencoe mayor Charles Gilchrist says the town took down the flag that was flying over the police department after the Freedom From Religion Foundation threatened to sue the municipality.

The flag has been flying since the 1990s and only now, the anti-Christian group says an “unnamed citizen” contacted them to complain.

The city council met in executive session to discuss a “legal matter” and emerged to say the flag would be coming down.

According to the mayor, another municipality was sued and had to pay over half a million dollars in damages and legal fees.

“That would just about ruin us,” Gilchrist tells WBRC. “That’s what they do, they pick on these smaller towns that can’t defend ourselves.”

AL.com reports the atheist group has also targeted nativity scenes in Rainbow City and Glencoe, as well as the name of the Christmas parade in Piedmont.

The group has demanded that high school football players stop praying before games.