{"id":18674,"date":"2020-06-19T14:57:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T21:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=18674"},"modified":"2020-06-19T13:58:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T20:58:31","slug":"city-of-boston-which-rejected-groups-request-to-fly-christian-flag-holds-homosexual-pride-flag-raising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/city-of-boston-which-rejected-groups-request-to-fly-christian-flag-holds-homosexual-pride-flag-raising\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Boston, Which Rejected Group\u2019s Request to Fly Christian Flag, Holds Homosexual Pride Flag Raising"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Heather Clark<\/a> – June 16, 2020<\/p>\n

BOSTON \u2014<\/strong> The City of Boston held a virtual flag-raising ceremony on June 5 to commence the 50th annual Boston Pride Week, celebrating the sins of homosexuality and bisexuality. Boston remains embroiled in a federal lawsuit after it denied a private group\u2019s request to fly the Christian flag over City Hall during their temporary event recognizing Constitution Day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Boston, we\u2019re very proud of how far we\u2019ve come,\u201d Mayor Ben Walsh said during the recorded event, which was posted to the Boston Pride YouTube page<\/a> with the hashtag #wickedproud. \u201cWe\u2019re proud of the trailblazers and activists who\u2019ve changed the world, and we\u2019re proud that many of them call our city home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to keep fighting for greater visibility and representation for people of all sexualities and gender identities,\u201d he stated. \u201cWe won\u2019t let anyone take us backward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walsh advised that since the in-person Pride event had to be canceled this year, the City looked for other ways to observe the occasion. He said that part of the plan includes lighting City Hall in rainbow colors.<\/p>\n

Republican Gov. Charlie Baker also spoke to viewers, thanking those involved with Boston Pride.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve made an enormous difference for the people in the Commonwealth and in the city of Boston, and you really have changed the world over the course of the past 50 years,\u201d he stated. \u201cGod bless and good luck in the next 50.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davron Monroe, an award-winning singer who performs opera, theater, gospel and jazz, sang the national anthem for the virtual event, and the song \u201cRaise You Up\u201d from the Boston Gay Men\u2019s Chorus played as footage showed the rainbow flag being run up the pole at City Hall.<\/p>\n

As previously reported<\/a>, the City of Boston was sued in 2018 after it rejected\u00a0a group\u2019s application to fly the Christian flag outside City Hall during an event celebrating the religious history of the city and the contributions made by Christians.<\/p>\n

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Heather Clark – June 16, 2020 BOSTON \u2014 The City of Boston held a virtual flag-raising ceremony on June 5 to commence the 50th annual Boston Pride Week, celebrating the sins of homosexuality and bisexuality. Boston remains embroiled in a federal lawsuit after it denied a private group\u2019s request to fly the Christian flag over … Continue reading City of Boston, Which Rejected Group\u2019s Request to Fly Christian Flag, Holds Homosexual Pride Flag Raising<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[8876,1939,175,177,233,15036,15035,241,26],"class_list":["post-18674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-horse","tag-boston","tag-christian-flag","tag-christianity","tag-christians","tag-gender-identities","tag-gov-charlie-baker","tag-mayor-ben-walsh","tag-persecution","tag-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4Rc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18676,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18674\/revisions\/18676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}