Major U.S. city coughs up $2 million for trying to kill Christian flag
The city of Boston is coughing up $2.1 million to pay for a lost fight in which officials tried to censor the Christian flag.
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The city of Boston is coughing up $2.1 million to pay for a lost fight in which officials tried to censor the Christian flag.
Boston will pay over $2 million in legal fees and other expenses after its refusal to allow a Christian cross flag to fly outside City Hall was deemed unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
After a five-year free speech legal battle that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, the City of Boston, Massachusetts settled Tuesday with the Christian religious rights law firm Liberty Counsel for more than $2.1 million in attorney's fees and costs due to the city's unconstitutional "religious viewpoint discrimination" against the Christian flag.
The city of Boston has agreed to pay more than $2.1 million to the Christian legal organization that backed a court challenge after the city refused to fly a Christian flag outside City Hall, a case that made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
BOSTON (AP) -- The city of Boston has agreed to pay more than $2.1 million to the Christian legal organization that backed a court challenge after the