This pretty much brings into conflict our patriotism and freedom of expression with the precedence of contracts or even zoning laws and codes too
but this is a bad case to uphold homowner association regs on
It’s definitely a bad case to try to argue the merits of the HOA position. How do you go against a decorated war hero’s right to fly a flag? So it doesn’t matter what the rules are, or whether the HOA normally rejects these requests.