Boston's ban on Christian group's flag at city hall illegal, US supreme court rules

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : At issue was whether the flagpole became a public forum meriting free speech protections under the first amendment to bar discrimination based on viewpoint, as the plaintiffs claimed, or whether it represented merely a conduit for government speech not warranting such protection, as Boston claimed.
52% : The 9-0 decision overturned a lower-court ruling that the rejection of Camp Constitution and its director, Harold Shurtleff, did not violate their rights to freedom of speech under the first amendment to the US constitution.
50% : In turning down Camp Constitution, the city said raising the cross flag could appear to violate another part of the first amendment that bars governmental endorsement of a particular religion.

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