Supreme Court Rules Boston Was Wrong To Bar Christian Flag From City Hall

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Therefore, the courts said, the government could reject Shurtleff without violating the First Amendment with the justification that they didn't want to get entangled with religion.
56% : The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 today that Boston violated the First Amendment when it allowed some private groups to fly flags outside City Hall while denying the same right to a religious organization.
52% : And Gorsuch (joined by Thomas) also wrote separately that the reason Boston (and other governments) consistently misunderstand the Establishment Clause is because of Lemon v. Kurtzman, a Supreme Court decision from 1971 determining that states violated the Establishment Clause by funding religious private schools.
42% : But those actions, in turn, only invited liability under other provisions of the First Amendment.

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