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Boston Banned a Christian Flag but Raised a Communist One
Cybercast News Service ^ | June 22, 2022 | 4:09am EDT | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 06/22/2022 2:13:11 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Not long after al Qaeda terrorists flew commercial jets into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Northern Virginia, Major League Baseball teams started playing “God Bless America” in the seventh inning of their games.

Many of these games were played in stadiums owned by local governments.

Did that establish a religion?

In Boston, the municipal government concluded that allowing a private group — Camp Constitution — to temporarily lift its Christian flag on a city-owned flagpole would suggest that the city was establishing a religion — and, thus, violating the First Amendment.

On the same flagpole, however, Boston itself raised the flag of the People’s Republic of China.

China, of course, is a communist, atheist regime. […]

The case that Camp Constitution and its founder, Harold Shurtleff, brought against Boston for denying this organization the opportunity to fly its flag on the same pole where the People’s Republic of China’s flag had flown went all the way to the Supreme Court. Last month, the court correctly ruled in favor of Camp Constitution and against Boston. […]

In addition to raising the flag of the People’s Republic of China outside its city hall, the city of Boston admitted in its own brief to the court that it had also raised “the LGBT rainbow Pride flag” and the “pink transgender rights flag.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: boston

1 posted on 06/22/2022 2:13:11 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

It’s sickening.


2 posted on 06/22/2022 2:17:05 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

Isn’t the “rainbow” flag a Communist flag? Or is it only a Democrat Socialist flag? Democrat Socialists are Communist-lite, less filling but just as disgusting.


3 posted on 06/22/2022 2:49:33 AM PDT by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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To: Olog-hai
Okay, I've resisted making this post for a number of hours -
but I can't help myself -

Hey Beantown -


4 posted on 06/22/2022 3:29:52 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: Olog-hai

So when is the commie flag going to fly over DC? Soon.


5 posted on 06/22/2022 3:33:33 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Olog-hai

Boston is the city of my birth, but for decades now I have felt like a refugee. Now a genuine refugee from Communism.


6 posted on 06/22/2022 3:48:53 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (qd4)
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To: Olog-hai

We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. It’s “whatever”.


7 posted on 06/22/2022 4:07:12 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. It's "whatever".)
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To: alloysteel

They’re all the same. Remember that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union started as the Social Democratic Labor Party of Russia.


8 posted on 06/22/2022 9:15:39 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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