Supreme Court unanimously rules against Boston in Christian flag case
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(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that the city of Boston censoring a private flag in a public forum solely because it was a “Christian flag”
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By Ariane de Vogue and Tierney Sneed, CNN The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that Boston violated the First Amendment rights of a group seeking to briefly raise a Christian flag atop a city flagpole outside of City Hall as a part of a city program celebrating Boston’s greater community.
A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that Boston violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist when it refused his request to fly a Christian flag on a flagpole outside City Hall.
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled the city of Boston violated a man's First Amendment rights when it said he could not raise a Christian flag in front of City Hall, despite allowing other groups from the community to raise secular flags.
In a unanimous decision, the court said the city created a public forum, open to all comers, when it allowed organizations to use a flagpole in front of City Hall.
On Monday, The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Boston violated a Christian group’s first amendment rights when the city refused to fly the group’s Christian flag outside of city hall.
“Boston’s flag-raising program does not express government speech,” Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the Supreme Court, which reversed a lower court’s judgment.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a program of the city of Boston that allows outside groups to fly flags at city hall must permit the flying of flag with a cross that a camp referred to as a "Christian flag."
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that Boston's refusal to allow a Christian group to hang its flag in front of city hall violated the 1st Amendment.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that Boston violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist when it refused his request to fly a Christian flag on a flagpole outside City Hall.
The unanimous decision was sufficiently narrow that other cities, indeed Boston itself, could construct rules that would limit flag flying to government-approved messages.
A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that Boston violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist when it refused his request to fly a Christian flag on a flagpole outside City Hall.
The justices said it was unconstitutional for the city to withhold a ceremonial city hall flag-raising from a Christian group when it had never turned down such a request from any other organization.
A conservative activist and his Camp Constitution group wanted to fly a white banner with a red cross on a blue background in the upper left corner, called the Christian flag.
The court unanimously ruled that the city, which has approved many other requests to raise flags at its City Hall, violated a Christian group’s free speech rights.
Justice Stephen Breyer wrote that 'the city’s lack of meaningful involvement in the selection of flags or the crafting of their messages leads us to classify the flag raisings as private, not government, speech.'
