The city of Boston may legally deny a request to fly a Christian flag on a City Hall flagpole while accepting other cultural groups’ requests to fly their flags, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. According to U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper, the city does not have to fly a Christian flag with a cross on it from a municipal flagpole on the same day in which the Christian civic group Camp
Constitution hosts its Constitution Day and Citizenship Day events at City Hall Plaza. The city had previously denied the request by the organization’s director, Harold Shurtleff, last year on grounds that an unwritten policy doesn’t permit the flying of nonsecular flags from the municipal flagpole. The city would permit the group to hold its event and even fly a Christian flag, but just not from the city’s flagpole. It would also let the group fly a nonsecular flag from the flagpole if it wanted. READ MORE
