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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,002 posts)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 01:48 PM Jan 2022

Supreme Court takes up dispute over Boston flagpole and Christian flag

A dispute over a Boston flagpole, the Christian flag and the First Amendment is testing the limits of free speech on government property.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments over whether the city of Boston engaged in unlawful discrimination and censorship when it denied the request of a local civic organization to fly the Christian flag on a flagpole outside City Hall.

Designed in the late 1880s, the white banner with red Latin cross has been adopted by many American Protestant communities as a nondenominational symbol of their faith.

The city says its policies forbid promotion of religion on its flagpoles and that doing so would violate separation of church and state.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/supreme-court-takes-up-dispute-over-boston-flagpole-and-christian-flag/ar-AASTqZI

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Bettie

(16,110 posts)
4. Heck, they'll probably say that the
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 02:40 PM
Jan 2022

"Christian" flag should be flown above the US flag...half sarcasm, half this fits in with their goals.

Cuthbert Allgood

(4,921 posts)
5. If they don't, they 100% will if SCOTUS rules flying the flag is OK.
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 02:41 PM
Jan 2022

They Sigil of Baphomet will fly in Massachusetts.

 

marie999

(3,334 posts)
8. If they say yes to religious flags Boston is going to have to put up a longer flagpole.
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 03:15 PM
Jan 2022

How many different religions have flags?

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