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Liberty Counsel – January 4, 2022<\/p>\n
Boston censored the religious viewpoint of Camp Constitution\u2019s flag, which was to be raised for about an hour the week of September 17 in observance of Constitution Day, while supporters gathered around the flagpole. The flag was part of the ceremony to honor the Constitution and recognize the Judeo-Christian heritage and Christian Founders, like John Adams and Samuel Adams, both who were residents of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n
Liberty Counsel has received broad-based support with 17 amicus briefs filed in support of the free speech case, including from the United States of America, 12 states and a wide range of organizations, even the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n
Boston had never censored any flag until Camp Constitution\u2019s flag<\/strong>, which is white with a blue square and a red cross in the upper left corner. The flag contains no writing. Under oath, the city official testified the flag would have been approved if the application did not refer to it as a \u201cChristian flag.\u201d<\/strong> The word \u201cChristian\u201d on the application alone triggered the censorship. The official said he had never heard of a \u201cChristian flag\u201d until Camp Constitution\u2019s application. Therefore, his testimony revealed that if Camp Constitution had not referred to the flag on the application with the word \u201cChristian,\u201d it would not have been censored. If the application had referred to the flag as the \u201cCamp Constitution Flag,\u201d then Boston Commissioner Gregory Rooney would have approved it.<\/p>\n The city refers to its flagpole as a \u201cpublic forum\u201d open to \u201call applicants\u201d to temporarily raise their own flags on the flagpole. The city of Boston\u2019s website<\/a> even states the goals for flag-raising events: \u201cWe commemorate flags from many countries and communities at Boston City Hall Plaza. We want to create an environment in the city where everyone feels included.\u201d<\/p>\n For 12 years, Boston approved 284 flag raisings by private organizations with no denials, but then denied Camp Constitution\u2019s flag solely because of the word \u201cChristian\u201d on the application.<\/strong><\/p>\n https:\/\/lc.org\/newsroom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Liberty Counsel – January 4, 2022 Boston censored the religious viewpoint of Camp Constitution\u2019s flag, which was to be raised for about an hour the week of September 17 in observance of Constitution Day, while supporters gathered around the flagpole. The flag was part of the ceremony to honor the Constitution and recognize the Judeo-Christian … Continue reading U.S. Supreme Court Takes Christian Flag Case<\/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":[8876,16395,175,177,16396,16398,16397],"class_list":["post-20549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-horse","tag-boston","tag-camp-constitutions-flag","tag-christianity","tag-christians","tag-constitution-day","tag-gregory-rooney","tag-judeo-christian-heritage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5lr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20549","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=20549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20558,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20549\/revisions\/20558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}