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Court restores rights to raise Christian flag in Boston City
The Supreme Court in the United States (U.S.) has restored the rights of people to raise the Christian flag over Boston City Hall.
The Court in a unanimous judgement in May in a suit: Shurtleff versus Boston, declared that “Boston City violated the rights of Christian activists when it denied them permission to fly a Christian flag, despite allowing other groups to raise banners in support of different beliefs anountries. ”
Accordingly, Activists in BOSTON, Massachusetts raised Christian flag over Boston City Hall on Wednesday, in observance of a Supreme Court ruling in May that affirmed their right to do so.
Hal Shurtleff, founder of Camp Constitution, had argued in the suit: “We have a great Constitution, and we have a wonderful First Amendment. “But just like when it comes to muscles, if you don’t use it, you get weak.”
Shurtleff, raising a flag above the Boston Square in celebration of the judgement, declared: “we have a great Constitution, and we have a wonderful First Amendment. But just like when it comes to muscles, if you don’t use it, you get weak.
“When I got the rejection email from the city, and it said separation for church and state, I knew we had a case.
“God’s hand was in this from the beginning.”
Hal Shurtleff, founder of Camp Constitution, filed a legal suit in 2017, challenging the restriction of flag raising event in the city.
Liberty Counsel, who represented Shurtleff and Camp Constitution, had disclosed that 284 applications were approved to raise different flags. The Counsel noted that the city further approved a flag for the Communist People’s Republic of China to fly since 2005.
Liberty Counsel Chairman Mat Staver asserted that “the only reason Camp Constitution’s request to fly this flag was denied was not because of the flag itself. It was Hal Shurtleff’s view of that flag.”
It was further disclosed: “It was because of one word in the application—the word ‘Christian’ that preceded the word ‘flag.’ He was told by the city official that if he changed the name of the flag to a nonreligious name on the application, that flag could have flown in 2017—if Hal would have lied and called it the Camp Constitution flag. This is not the Camp Constitution flag. It is the Christian flag.”
