Super-woke cities like Boston want inclusion and tolerance at all times.
Unless you believe in Jesus Christ, that is.
The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that Boston violated the Constitution by refusing to permit a Christian group to fly its flag outside City Hall while allowing other organizations to hoist their banners.
The irony of this case is that it stemmed from an event on Constitution Day.
You know, the charter of rights that Bostonians fought so hard for during the War of Independence?
The justices said the city had run afoul of free speech protections by declining a request from Camp Constitution, a religious group, to fly a Christian flag bearing the Latin cross to commemorate Constitution Day and honor the Christian community's civic contribution.
A pivotal issue in the case was whether Boston, by making a flagpole on City Hall Plaza available for use by certain outside groups, had created a forum for private speech, or whether the flying of third-party flags amounted to a government-backed message.
No one in government has any issue with LGBT, BLM, Antifa, or the Hammer and Sickle flag flying on government property.
In fact, our federal government regularly flies the flag of the Rainbow Religion over our public buildings and embassies.
But the second someone says, "Hey, I'm a follower of Jesus and the ancient teachings of the Bible, which are followed by over 2 billion people today in an unbroken chain going back thousands and thousands of years," all of a sudden the government screams "SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE" from their rainbow-decorated offices.
In a 9-0 decision penned by Justice Stephen Breyer, the court ruled that because Boston's flag-flying tradition did not amount to government speech, the city's refusal to fly Camp Constitution's flag based on its religious viewpoint violated the group's freedom of speech.
You know you done messed up when you get an unanimous decision from the Court these days!!!
Boston had previously allowed 50 other flags from 2005 to 2017 be flown for ceremonies held by third parties at City Hall. And while the "Christian flag" was only made up a century ago and isn't the official flag of Jesus, it has just as much validity as whatever color-striped nonsense the cool kids are trying to create for their religions these days.
"When a government does not speak for itself, it may not exclude speech based on ‘religious viewpoint,'" Breyer wrote, citing Supreme Court precedent. "Doing so ‘constitutes impermissible viewpoint discrimination.'"
Glad to see the old-school liberal Breyer still has a sense of right and wrong.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh also wrote an opinion on the case that highlights an even more sound understanding of what the Founders would have said:
"As this Court has repeatedly made clear, however, a government does not violate the Establishment Clause merely because it treats religious persons, organizations, and speech equally with secular persons, organizations, and speech in public programs, benefits, facilities, and the like," Kavanaugh wrote. "On the contrary, a government violates the Constitution when (as here) it excludes religious persons, organizations, or speech because of religion from public programs, benefits, facilities, and the like."
(Secularism is a religion btw)
When in doubt, side with religious liberty!
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