NEW: The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Boston violated the First Amendment when it said a local organization could not fly a Christian flag in front of City Hall.
that Boston violated the First Amendment when it said a local organization could not fly a Christian flag in front of City Hall.Justice Stephen Breyer, who delivered the opinion of the court, said that Boston "violated the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment" by not allowing Camp Constitution, which says its
The commissioner of Boston's Property Management Department said no because he worried that flying a religious flag at City Hall would violate the Constitution's Establishment Clause, which prohibits a government from establishing an official religion. Breyer said that at the time, Boston did not have any written policy on limiting the use of one of their City Hall flag poles based on the content of a flag.The case, Shurtleff v. Boston, focused on whether the city uses its flag poles to fly flags that communicate governmental messages or instead, opens their use for citizens to express their own beliefs.
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