A judge has banned the Christian Flag from City Hall in Boston, but she’s fine with the flagpole promoting communist China, communist Cuba, the LGBTQ agenda and anti-christian causes.
An appeal was immediately filed after Judge Denise Casper made the ruling.
The judge insisted there was no evidence the city had any “improper preference for non-religion over religion.”
The dispute is over a request by the non-profit group Camp Constitution to fly a Christian flag — white with a blue segment that contains a red image of a cross — on the city flagpole, which routinely is made available to a variety of private groups and causes.
The city refused, the camp sued, and now the case is heading to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals.
Liberty Counsel said that after “the close of discovery, the undisputed facts agreed to by the city show Boston has allowed nearly 300 flag raisings by private organizations on the city hall flagpole, which the city designated as a public forum for private speech.”
Mat Staver, Liberty Counsel’s chairman, said Boston’s “open censorship continues against Camp Constitution’s Christian viewpoint.”
Camp Constitution first asked the city in 2017 for a permit to raise the Christian flag on Boston City Hall flagpoles. The purpose was to commemorate Constitution Day, which is Sept. 17.
The judge admitted that the city had never denied a flag-raising request prior to Camp Constitution’s request.