Page 6 - Hal Shurtleff News Today

Outside of Boston City Hall stand three flag poles. One of them flies the U.S. flag, another, the flag of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the third flagpole is intended to celebrate other countries, cultures, and causes.

In 2017, Boston resident Hal Shurtleff and his Christian civic organization applied for permission to mark Constitution Day. The city said no.

A Christian legal ministry says the city of Boston has violated the First Amendment by censoring a private flag in a public forum merely because the application form referred to the flag as “Christian.”

Over the past 12 years there have been 284 flags—from LGBTQ rainbow flags, a Turkish flag with the ...

Smithsonian Institution scientist and “climate realist” Willie Soon began his Camp Constitution lecture titled “The Climate-Change Hoax” with a question.“How many people think that carbon dioxide, the so-called satanic gas, can be really dangerous for...

A conservative law firm argued in federal court that a Christian nonprofit should be allowed to fly the Christian flag at Boston, Massachusetts’ city hall.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to decide the case of a Christian group claiming that the city of Boston violated the First Amendment when it refused a request to fly a Christian flag temporarily at the Boston City Hall.

News Roundup Afternoon Briefs: Biden lifts transgender military ban; Boston doesnt have to fly Christian flag, court says   Biden lifts transgender military ban President Joe Biden signed an executive order Monday that lifts the Trump administration’s ban on transgender people in the military. “What I’m doing is enabling all qualified Americans to serve their country in uniform,” Biden said as he signed the order. (The New York Times, the Associated Press, the Washington Post, the exec...

The city of Boston, Massachusetts, can stop a citizen from flying a Christian flag over City Hall, the First Circuit ruled on Friday. The petitioners say they will go to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that censoring a private flag because it contains a cross amounts to violation of the First Amendment.